The question is why are some African Americans continuing to sub-achieve, even as a growing number gain unprecedented success? I believe the reason we as a race continue to fall short of our true manifest abilities is us or more exactly, our p-poor choices. Health care was the only area that showed progress, with parity increasing from 73.3 percent to 74.4 percent.' Education (78.6 percent to 78.5 percent) and civic engagement (100.3 percent to 96.3) also demonstrated growing rather than diminishing gaps. Justice also remained elusive, declining from 62.1 to 60.4 percent. …African Americans twice as likely as Whites to be unemployed and three times more likely to live in poverty and with the gap in home ownership rates widening from 64 to 63 percent, economics remained the area with the greatest degree of inequality and worsened from 57.6 percent in 2008 to 57.4 percent in 2009.īlacks six times more likely than Whites to be incarcerated equality in social 'Despite the election of the nation’s first Black president and the growing clout of Black Capitol Hill lawmakers, the lot of African Americans remains largely unchanged and even slightly worse. The National Urban League (Urban League) just released its’ “ The State of Black America 2009” report.
