And anyone
would think that United States lives in a realization of the vision of King,
where black and white people hold hands and sing a song of Barney. But in spite
of the battles of the 60´s, the reality is so different. The system operation
really has worsened the situation of millions of black people during the last
decades. Now millions of African Americans still live at the bottom of society,
coping with low paying jobs, if they get it.
Laws were
passed that made unlawful discrimination, but we still see black people living
in crowded ghettos. The Infant mortality rate for black children exceeds the
white children´s by almost 250%, the life expectancy is 6.3 years less for
African American men than for white men and reports documented that black
people receive worse medical care even when they have insurance. In the cities
the school segregation is as strong as forty years ago; and the
disparity in funding for schools aimed at suburbs mostly white and cities
mostly black is still accentuated. Now there are more than 900.000 and the
number is increasing, this amount is ten times that during the Montgomery bus
boycott. A lynch mob has replaced the police.
Then, what
you think did happen with black american people
after the dead of Martin Luther King?
It's so sad to think that despite everything he did Martin Luther king, the african american people still can not live with all their rights. After the death of king is obvious that people forgot the injustices African American people because there wasn't someone brave enough to defend them like King. And we can see the irony because Obama, the president from United States is a African American person, and despite that these people are still discriminated, living less time than Americans. This is very stupid, because only have other skin color, and have to suffer for it.
ReplyDeleteSince you mention Obama, who filled of hope to African Americans, during his mandate has not done anything against the devastating impact that the economic crises have had on them. Their policies based on neoliberalism and privatization of public services have further affected this group.
DeleteI believe that your entry is very important and interesting because when we think
ReplyDeleteabout black people we always think about M.luther king and that´s all, but you focus
on all that people that also need to find their own place and be part of our society as
we are and also your article make me think about all those people who don´t do anything
when they are bullied for anyone else.