PovertyEssay Preview: PovertyReport this essayNumerous amounts of Americans continue to live in poverty. In 2005 statistics taken from “Newsweek”, illustrate on graphs the percentages of each ethnic group, including Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander and American Indian living in poverty in the United States. “Newsweek” also illustrates the number of people living in poverty by race. Statistically more than half of the people living in poverty represent people of color.
The high poverty rate for people of color can be linked to what Leonce Gaiter, author of “The revolt of the black bourgeoisie,” refers to as white liberalism or white superiority. Gaiter believes “It was hammered into the African-American psyche by media-appointed black leaders and the white media that it was essential to our political progress to stay economically and socially deprived.” Also according to Gaiter, Blacks tended to associate themselves with Whites in a way to seek advancement opportunities. Though still the blacks were sought as their inferiors and in now way their competitor.
Lack of advancement opportunities is a main cause of poverty. Some people are fortunate enough to rise above poverty in spite of white superiority. Those who have overcome poverty should encourage and lead others to a way out. Also more programs should be created and made widely accessible to people of color. There are many Hispanics for instance that cannot speak the English language fluently which most often prohibits them from obtaining well paying jobs which then constitutes for living in poverty. Also for instance, many immigrants struggle for the right papers needed in order to place them in a better position. Access to this would be a great asset provided by the government. Since America is known as the land of opportunity, this opportunity should be offered to people of color in abundance instead of the justified fixated notion of essential economic deprivation.
–Anonymous, 9 April 2014, 09:17:41 AM
You really could argue that blacks are less desirable to Americans in general, for what more could you say? You have no idea how many of those that vote with that political ideology have no idea what a good society looks like. What it would give you to think they are more desirable in some other country on the basis of their racial affiliation is quite silly.
–Anonymous, 9 April 2014, 09:44:00 AM
http://www.thetruthaboutpoverty.org/files/documents/2011_05.pdf
And they really didn’t just ask about that problem and say the US had 20 million African-Americans (they were the first on a poverty test and this number is very hard to get back, although the percentage was more than 10 per 10,000 people according to the Survey Bureau and it really only has a 3.5% chance that blacks in America are likely to be poor due to a lack of access to decent educations).
If you know there are white Americans that are poor then you have already noticed that most of the “poor people” are not the ones that have access to good jobs. In fact as blacks themselves say the majority of them work in manufacturing, food processing, warehousing and other related industries. If black people, you need to get the government’s help so that they can get their education. How easy it is to convince people they are the “poor people” is a mystery.
The “poor” is actually the ones that were in the top two or three out of most countries across Europe and all the other advanced nation states. And since many of the countries have the highest levels of income inequality than any other single country in the world, we can compare them for differences in economic status and to learn about some of the facts about the “rich” nations that have the highest income inequality.
Inequality in America over the past 50 years >
This chart reveals that despite gains in average income and even relative poverty, the US has actually suffered from a much higher inequality of income. Of course, our current problem is the problems with the system. So you should understand that there are many problems with the system compared to the poor countries in the world. These problems are not new in the world and people don’t have to be satisfied just to have access to good jobs, education, healthcare or basic quality of life. The problems that need to be solved, that should be solved, simply will not exist in America as they do in most other industrialized countries. It just took the best minds of our civilization an entire generation just to find the solutions to those problems.