Millions hoddie walk

My current event was related to Zack's. Trayvon was killed in Florida for acting sketchy and wearing hood after buying a piece of candy at a store. The Millions hoddie walk was held in New York on March 21, 2012. Hundreds of people showed up wearing hooded sweatshirts and also to show their support for Trayvon and his family. Trayvons mother and father made a speech at the march. The participation who walked wanted to make an end to racial profiling. The guy who killed him still today is not got any charges. Do you think that this walk was a good idea? Do you think it would of been different if Trayvon was white?

U.S Poverty Rate Reaches New High

One in 6 Americans live in poverty, poor families have been in the worst shape sense the 1990s. With no college degrees it makes it harder for a person to get a job but the minority groups struggle the most. 27% of African Americans were in poverty in the 2010 census. The average poor person by definition has a standard of living higher then most people imagine. This article challenges the census bureaus results. The U.S has struggled with poverty through out our history. Should we use big government or less government to try and lower the poverty rates in the U.S?

http://hmcurrentevents.com/u-s-poverty-rate-reaches-new-high/

Unemployment Benefits due to expire

On April 10th, 2012 the extend benefits for unemployed workers will expire. The extended benefits is provided if someone needs more money until they find a job but it doesnt last forever. When someone exhausts there benefits from the state completely the federal government steps in and provides an Emergency Unemployed Benefits. EUC has been set to expire in January of 2013. There has been many people pushing for the government to renew the policy that says these benefits need to expire.  People are hopeful that a new government will do just that. Is it fair for the government to just take the benefits away? If they extend them how long should it be extended for?

Florida family seeks justice

17 year old teenager gets gunned down by a neighborhood watch captain because of he says he was acting suspiciously. Even after police says to stand down he ignores this and confronted the teenager. Is race a factor of this happening? If the roles were reversed a black neighborhood watchmen and a white teenager would this have happened?

I think that it is more a case of black students having different discipline and behavior at home and it is too different from what is expected in schools. In order to fix this i believe that schools with high expulsion and suspension rates should have role model programs to help the problem students learn how they are suppose to behave in a school setting without being in trouble.

Whites outliving blacks

On average white males live about seven years longer than black men in the us. This shows american that health care improvement is a great necessity. Why do you think health care for blacks is still not as good as whites?

Black Students Getting Punished More.

In schools around the world black students are getting the big portion of the suspensions and expulsions. The black students take up about 18% of the population in the schools in the United States but account to 46 percent of the suspensions and 39% of the expulsions. This, however, may not be because of what we are bound to think. It could be happening because of other reasons.
For many reason Black Americans have been forced to live in the poorer more dangerous sections of the United States. By having these challenges black families have a tendency to get a divorce and studies show that kids from a seporated family tend to be more violent or act out in school. They also believe that within black communities black teachers teach black kids and they think that the black teachers have a tendency to be a little more strict to their students.
So, after hearing all this, do you think it is more because of racist teachers making them get in trouble or do you think there is another reason to why these statics are out there? What should we do to make a change?

Race Data

Click here to view three documents that provide insight on race relations in the Commonwealth.

When analyzing the data, determine trends that continue to appear with regard to connections between race and class.  Comment here, by group.

Kerner Commision Reports on US Racial Inequality

Many of todays Politicians ignore racial and minority issues and arent adequetly addressing problems faced by minorities like whether they should reduce or increase racial inequalities because of the kerner commision in the past. Lyndon B Johnson warned america was leading to two different societies one black and one white. Seperate and Unequal. President Johnson never acted on this in 1968 and now people think this is to blame for not taking action now on minority issues. Do you think by not acting in 1968 affects the us with minority issues from today?

more blacks leave NYC, Chicago for south

trecently there has been a high number of african american that are migrating to the south. after the great migration in 1910 the share of blacks in the south hit an all-time low of 53€ percent and has been raised to 57 percent. blacks tend to vote democrat, how could the large number of africans americans moving to the south affect the elections.