Issues Under Fire: Why Blacks Are Losers in America's Race of the Races

Issues Under Fire: Why Blacks Are Losers in America's Race of the Races 

Since the issue of race has become all the rage of late here in the States, this observer thought it might be helpful to examine the issue from the grassroots up. Starting with how African Americans measure up against other ethnic demographics in the United States, it was no surprise to find the African American languishing at the bottom of every category listed. 

The African American is at the bottom in annual income, savings, investments, home/property ownership, education and employment. African Americans have languished on the bottom of every economic and educational study ever since records of this nature have been kept. If the studies are true, then the root of the problem is clear. African Americans have no money, hence the African American has no power.  

Existing in a capitalist society without money and power to influence one's status quo was at one time frustrating, but today its impossible. With the economic divide growing as fast as it is in the United States, no group is being left behind faster than the African American.  The longer the African American languishes at the bottom, the greater the chance the African American will remain at the bottom. The African American has been at the bottom so long, they've been legitimately stereotyped as losers. Harsh perhaps, but that's the rap.

Due to the African American's inability to find a way to compete educationally and economically at or near the capabilities of other groups in the population, the prevailing presumption is, the African American has less value. Having less value as an individual eventually extends to the group. Once valued less as a group, its not long before the rights of that group, both civil and human are ignored and violated. This is the worse position any minority group can find itself in. 

To be fair, the African American has had to endure pressures, burdens and circumstances no other ethnic group has had to confront and overcome. With historically systemic and institutional conditions, many intentionally designed to keep "them in their place", the African America has been handicapped in America's race of the races. Still, handicapped or not, losing in the game of life is not an option and marching in the streets is not a plan. 

If the African American want to stop being harassed by law enforcement, watched like criminals when shopping and be treated with respect and dignity by the broader population, they're going to have to bring more to the table than they have to date.

The only way African Americans can change their image, is by massively increasing their wealth. While that may be possible for exceptional African Americans, those with average skills, talents and credentials will need to unite with and cooperate and as a collective. Individually, the average African American is in such a weakened state, the challenge of lifting one's self up alone may be overwhelming without community support. Hence, the African America community must find  a way to unite as one. 

Bottom line: The African American is going to have to set goals as a collective and achieve said goals as a collective.  African Americans will have to achieve their goals without help from anyone but African Americans, for there is no other way to dispel the stereotypes that have historically stigmatized them. Podcast Below!