No progress for African Americans on homeownership, unemployment and incarceration in 50 years

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So, what's the answer? 50 years is a long ass time and we've had various leaderships from opposite sides of the spectrum come in and change hands in the last half a century.

In some cases, African Americans are worse off today than they were before the civil rights movement culminated in laws barring housing and voter discrimination, as well as racial segregation.

  • 7.5 percent of African Americans were unemployed in 2017, compared with 6.7 percent in 1968 — still roughly twice the white unemployment rate.
  • The rate of homeownership, one of the most important ways for working- and middle-class families to build wealth, has remained virtually unchanged for African Americans in the past 50 years. Black homeownership remains just over 40 percent, trailing 30 points behind the rate for whites, who have seen modest gains during that time.
  • The share of incarcerated African Americans has nearly tripled between 1968 and 2016 — one of the largest and most depressing developments in the past 50 years, especially for black men, researchers said. African Americans are 6.4 times as likely than whites to be jailed or imprisoned, compared with 5.4 times as likely in 1968.
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It's unfortunate but not surprising. Following the end of segregation, lots of municipalities enacted policy to specifically prevent black Americans from competing on an even playing field or to keep the social and economic order intact.

There's this belief that the end of segregation and the Civil Rights Act was followed a concerted effort of the majority to balance the playing field. But that's not what happened.

Instead, the Civil Rights Act simply served as the legal foundation for subsequent attempts to deconstruct the pre-existing discriminatory policies. That was complicated by the creation of new, racially neutral policy with the same racial intent. The 50 years since the Civil Rights Act have been very complicated if we're examining the intersection between race, law and economics.
 
Relatively equal economic opportunity came a few decades too late for black Americans. We've made great social stride in recent decades, but the black community really only got even marginally equal access to upward mobility at the outset of the neoliberal era, in which no demographic has improved.
 
Forced integration was a bad idea and trapped us in perpetual mediocrity.
 
Black American Progress may inevitably start declining due to influx of foreign immigration, both legal and illegal.
 
You mean there wasn't any progress made under the first black president?
 
There are many reasons, this is one of them....

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Nigerians had a better start....
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