In the wake of a new report, Martin Luther King III says his dad’s dream is not realized and “our work is not over.”…
Protesters participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech to.
Some on the right are willing to say the quiet part of this argument out loud: If racial inequality persists between white people and Black or Native American communities, for example, then there must be a problem with Black people and Native Americans. According to this distorted view, the playing field was equalized decades ago by reforms that ended legal segregation and Jim Crow , soIf this smells like racism, that’s because it is, and anti-poverty advocates have the data to prove it.
While there is notable improvement in some areas, including Black educational achievement, disparities between Black and white Americans persist in employment, wages, health care, voting rights, sentencing and incarceration, housing and. Jennifer Jones Austin, executive director of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies , a century-old group with deep ties to the civil rights movement, said racial inequity is still recorded across “nearly all measures of wellbeing” today.
“Today, millions of Americans remain disenfranchised and denied access to the most basic freedoms taken for granted by others — simply because of their race,” Jones Austin said on Wednesday. “Black Americans earn 20 percent less than their white counterparts, even with identical college degrees. This racial wealth gap has long-term detrimental impacts on families: One in three Black children live in poverty, compared to less than 1 in 10 white children.
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