Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream in 1963...his Dream was that "race" would no longer play a major role in determining a person's chances in life.
Although we know that "race" is a social construct, rather than a biological fact, it IS part of a social reality that we all operate within. Does "race" still matter in determining the chances a person in the USA will face in life? Do all people have the same opportunities for success, happiness, etc., regardless of race?
Your job:
1) find a current statistic (health, education, economic, social, etc.) that has data based on "race" -- include the title of the statistic and the numbers.
2) cite your source (URL).
3) explain whether your statistic shows that MLK, Jr's Dream has come true or not.
4) give your two cents about whether the Dream is now, or will ever be in the future, a reality -- read other peoples' comments to help you decide.
5) include your name (first name, last initial), and class period.
Make sure your statistic is unique (no one else has chosen it).
Sample comment:
1) Distribution of Household Income by Race -- Year 2010 Households Below $14,999 Income
White 11.1%
Black 25.8%
Hispanic origin 17.4%
2) http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104552.html
3) This statistic shows a much higher percentage of households of color living on very low household incomes. Society is not yet equal in terms of household income, so MLK, Jr.'s Dream does not yet appear to be a reality. In fact, the numbers for prior years show a smaller discrepancy between "race," so things appear to have gotten worse lately. This may be due to the recent economic downturn that had greater negative impacts on black and hispanic households than on white households.
4) The Dream has not yet come true due to the current impacts of historical practices and attitudes designed to keep the people in power on top of the system. It may come true some day, as the racial/ethnic makeup of the country changes, but it will be a difficult task to convince the people on top that helping those on the bottom get up is good for everyone -- "a rising tide lifts all boats." Education is power, so to empower all people, we need more and better education for all for the Dream to have a chance.
5) Mr. H., 2 and 3 Period
This is a 5 point assignment due by 11:59pm on 5/21/15...Good Luck!
1) Distribution of Household Income by Race -- Year 2010 Households Below $14,999 Income
ReplyDeleteWhite 11.1%
Black 25.8%
Hispanic origin 17.4%
2) http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104552.html
3) This statistic shows a much higher percentage of households of color living on very low household incomes. Society is not yet equal in terms of household income, so MLK, Jr.'s Dream does not yet appear to be a reality. In fact, the numbers for prior years show a smaller discrepancy between "race," so things appear to have gotten worse lately. This may be due to the recent economic downturn that had greater negative impacts on black and hispanic households than on white households.
4) The Dream has not yet come true due to the current impacts of historical practices and attitudes designed to keep the people in power on top of the system. It may come true some day, as the racial/ethnic makeup of the country changes, but it will be a difficult task to convince the people on top that helping those on the bottom get up is good for everyone -- "a rising tide lifts all boats." Education is power, so to empower all people, we need more and better education for all for the Dream to have a chance.
5) Mr. H., 2 and 3 Period
1) Poverty by Race in the United States
ReplyDeleteWhite: 10%
Black: 27%
Hispanic: 24%
Other: 14%
2) http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/
3) This statistic shows that non-white, specifically African Americans, have a much higher poverty rate than whites. This means that there are much more blacks that are struggling with poverty than there are whites. So I believe that this stat shows that MLK's dream has not come true yet because there are still some differences between the races when it comes to equality. It can be harder for some blacks to find jobs because of their skin color. Most of society is becoming more equal and there has been progress, but there are jobs and areas that still carry prejudices against different races, which can make it harder to get a job, and survive out of poverty.
4) I believe that one day, not yet, but one day MLK's dream will come completely true. There has been clearly a lot of progress with racism, but it still exists in society. But one day I think there won't be any racism because in the new generations, they don't believe in racism, so when today's generations have the next generations, they will teach them to not be racist, so one day it will all be gone. It is similar to how in present day, there are much more people accepting of same sex marriage and couples, there has been much progress with that, just how there has been much progress with racism, but there is still some work to be done about the issue.
5) Tara Rhodes, 2 period
1) Colored people make up 30% of the population of the U.S., they make up 60% of the incarcerated population.
ReplyDelete2) https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/
3) This statistic is a reflection of the struggle that african americans face that put them into the situation to do things that put them in jail.
4) On paper the dream is pretty true, but if you look at the news there is still plenty of racist people in our world that are doing eveything they can from preventing this dream.
5) Max Parisi Period 2
1. According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1 in 3 black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime.
ReplyDelete2. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/
3. This shows that MLK's dream has not come true because it represents how black men are treated with much harsher punishments.
4. I believe society has made progress with reducing racism, but it still very much exists. I think the improvement is due to having better education and enforcing kindness and acceptance around the world. If people continue to work towards this goal I think it is possible to get rid of all racism.
5. Emma McCarthy period 3
1.Education Attainment in U.S (2013)
ReplyDeleteLess: White: 8% Black: 16%
High School: White: 29% Black 33%
Some college: White 20% Black: 23%
Associate's: White: 10% Black: 9%
Bachelor's: White: 21% Black: 13%
Advanced: White:12% Black: 6%
2. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-education-still-separate-and-unequal
3. I think it has become true because everyone has the equal opportunity to go to school and get the education because their are people from every race going to high school, college and beyond.
4. I think as time goes on, more and more people from both races will go further with their education.
5. Caitlyn A, period 3
Brad V
ReplyDeletep-3
1. 72% of black people have a highschool degree at the age of 25. 85% of white people do as well
2.http://www.nea.org/home/15215.htm
3.This statistic shows how blacks have come to school almost just as much as white people and thats great compared to the amount of black schooled students before. His dream has come true.
4. The dream is already happening as schools allow all races to attend school together.
1.While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned.
ReplyDelete2.https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/
3. This is not the dream coming true. Even though this statistic makes us think that blacks cause more crime, on another website, I saw that more white people are charged with the offense. In my opinion, this statistic proves that blacks are arrested more at the scene.
4. I believe far enough into the future, that yes, the dream will become true. We have made progress in eliminating racism, but we still have a lot to do.
5. Laura, period 2
Jordan E period 3
ReplyDelete1)While only 30% of white children live in low income homes, 65% of black children and 63% of Hispanic children do..
2)http://www.nccp.org/profiles/US_profile_6.html
3)This statistic does not show his dream coming true. Instead it shows how a majority of the children and probably families of these races are living on or near the poverty line, while only about a third of the white population does.
4)I myself believe his dream is becoming a reality more and more. We have become a society that shows everyone equal rights no matter what race they are. However I feel because of how hard it is to actually bring yourself out of poverty a lot of these Hispanic and black low income families will be stuck in a viscous circle, causing the dream to slip farther and farther away.
Emma B 2
ReplyDelete1) While only 10% of white people are considered in poverty, blacks are at 27%.
2) http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/
3) This does not show the dream coming true, as blacks are still in more poverty than whites.
4) I think that in time the dream will have come true.
Brandon B 3
ReplyDelete1. 5.3% of American whites are unemployed in the US while 11.4% of blacks are unemployed
2. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/white-unemployment-53-black-unemployment-114
3. This fact does not support Dr. King's dream. If his dream were complete, the statistics for whites and African Americans would be equal.
4. Segregation has been eliminated and racism has sure died down but it is still very present. I do believe as time goes on, racism will become less and less of a factor in our every day lives but i do not believe it will ever completely die, unfortunately
1.10% of whites in the United States are in poverty and 27% black are in poverty.
ReplyDelete2. http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/
3. This statistic and website shows that African Americans have a much higher poverty rate than whites. This means that there are many more black people homeless and jobless. Many of these people are probably trying to raise and support their family, but they are barely able to support themselves. These statistics show that MLK’s dream has not yet come true because the number from blacks to whites is very different. Even though the color of someone's skin shouldn’t determine anything about them, blacks have a harder time starting a career or even getting one. You would think the color of someone wouldn’t matter at this very moment, but I can definitely say that there has been progress. Since there has been progress this means that it will only get better and more equal from here.
4. I believe that one day we will all be seen and treated as one. That day is not today but today we are living in progress and that is the start to being equal. I would say that majority of people don’t agree with racism but there will always be the people who are always for it. As new generations come, I do not think racism will be as big of a deal because they aren’t living in crisis’s like the Baltimore riots. The only people that might never change are the people who don’t believe in being equal with blacks, so they keep passing that trait down to their kids. Right now we are in a good progress and see whites and blacks mixed everywhere but it will only get better in the future. It is going to take time just like legalizing marijuana, and making gay marriages legal. Even though there are some people who are against it majority of the people accept it.
5. Jaclyn Walters, 2
1. Blacks in Baltimore are 5.6 percent more likely to get arrested for the possession of marijuana.
ReplyDelete2. https://www.popularresistance.org/the-shocking-statistics-of-racial-disparity-in-baltimore/
3. This statistic shows that blacks are targeted a lot more for drugs and that white white people can get away with more, just for being white. In my opinion I do not think that MLKs dream has come true, I mean his dream was for whites and blacks to live together in equality. For the most part we do live together in peace but you have the stupid little things like getting targeted more for marijuana than a white
guy.
4.I really do not think that we will all be equal. There is just to much past to make up for. There will always be those people who will try to start stuff just to start stuff and they will not forget about the past. Also, blacks and whites, well all races, are different colored, have different shaped faces, eyes or anything superficial which makes you different. So there will always be the fact that you are different and that is good enough for some folks to be mean.
5. Cory Masterson, Period 3
1.disturbing facts about school systems-
ReplyDeleteAt ages as early as 4, Latinos, blacks and native Americans are punished unequally in comparison to White kids . Also, they are more likely to have a first year teacher.
2. http://m.thenation.com/blog/178958-14-disturbing-stats-about-racial-inequality-american-public-schools
3/4. I don't think MLK's dream has come true yet. For the most part where we live in Cary Illinois, things are pretty peaceful. But step outside our little bubble and it is pretty safe to say it's not peaceful. Cary grove kids are the rich white people compared to other schools, and that statistic (not targeting cg or any district in particular) shows that the inequality starts young in a place where we are for most of the day, every day. there's still the assumption that most black people are dangerous , that Mexican guys are all in gangs. I mean, there's still violence in the Chi. So some of these presumptions about everybody all stem from truth , but the issue here is that we certainly are nowhere near a state of equality. We're sorta kinda on our way, and I hope we reach peace eventually. I don't think I'll be alive when that time comes because there's a lot to make up for.
Kallie Kouvelis/ 2nd
ReplyDelete1) Colored people make up 30% of the population of the U.S., they make up 60% of the jail population.
2) https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/
3) This stat shows the struggle that black people face that put them into bad situations and why they get put into jail. You can clearly tell that his dream has not come true.
4) We still see racism all over the world to this day, plenty of racist people in our country are doing anything they can from preventing this dream. Hopefully one day we can make his dream come true.
Anna Slowiak. 2.
ReplyDelete1) In 2010, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African Americans receive 10% longer sentences than whites through the federal system for the same crimes.
2) https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-racial-discrimination
3) I feel that this statistic shows that isn't hasn't come completely true yet. African Americans are receiving a longer sentence than whites for the same crimes, just because their skin color. It's not equal/fair.
4) I feel that with time we may become more aware of racism and work on bringing it down, but there will always a portion of the world that is racist. So as much as I would like to see MLK's dream to come true and everyone to be 100% equal, I know it isn't realistic. No matter what we do, there will always be at least one person who is racially unfair. But if we ever do get to that point, I won't be able to see it with my own eyes most likely, it's going to take a lot more time than my years on earth.
1. Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites. In 1983, there was 19.5% and 8.4% of whites unemployed. In 2013, there were 13.4% black unemployed and 6.7% whites.
ReplyDelete2.http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/21/through-good-times-and-bad-black-unemployment-is-consistently-double-that-of-whites/
3. I think it is becoming true because the there is becoming less and less unemployed as the years go on even though it is taking a while.
4. I think that as it time goes on there will be less and less blacks unemployed as the time will go on.
5. Makenzie H Period 3
Jill Sikora p.3
ReplyDelete1 While only 10% of white people are considered in poverty, African Americans are at 27%.
2 http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/
3 This does not show the dream coming true, as African Americans are still in more poverty than white people. I believe this is unfair and we should be treated equally.
4 I think that in time the dream will have come true, but society needs to stop keeping scores of the human race.
1. Of all adults arrested in 2013, 69.6 percent were white, 27.6 percent were black, and 2.9 percent were of other races. White individuals were arrested more often for violent crimes than individuals of any other race and accounted for 58.4 percent of those arrests.
ReplyDelete2. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
3. This shows that the dream is alive.
4. Crime isn't only reflecting off of people of other races, but mostly on every race as a whole.
5. Olivia R Per. 3
1. In 2013, the average ACT score for each race went like this, from highest average score to lowest: Asian, White, Pacific Islander, Hispanic, American Indian, and then African American. This order has stayed mostly the same in the past as well; the only two changes were when Hispanics began getting a higher average score than American Indians, and when Pacific Islanders entered the mix.
ReplyDelete2. http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/cccr13/performance3.html
3. I think that this shows that the ACT is better suited to certain types of people. I don't mean racially, but I think that people born into Asian, White, or African American culture are more likely to get a certain score. I don't think that we can draw any conclusions about MLK's Dream from this statistic; the ACT doesn't judge us by race OR character, but rather just how good we are at taking the test. However, it does show that there is some difference in how many people of a certain race prepare for the ACT, and I think that this isn't as homogenous as MLK might have imagined in his dream.
4. I think that the Dream's status as "now" depends on who we are and who we are around. Somewhere around one million Tutsis were slaughtered in Rwanda a little more than twenty years ago, and I don't think the dream lives there. Memories of racial hatred still reverberate in people today, and I think that, so long as these tint our glasses, no matter how minuscule, the true equality for people of all colors will still be that far away. However, we are very much closer to that Dream than we were 40 years ago in America. Lynching is no longer popular, and I'm sure that the word genocide brings a sour taste to everyones' mouth here. That makes me feel secure.
1. Children Under 18 Living in Poverty, 2010
ReplyDeleteWhite: 12.4%
Black: 38.2%
Hispanic: 35%
2. http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/
3. These statistics still show that non whites have a higher rate of poverty than whites do, therefore showing that his dream has not come true. African Americans still have the highest rate and whites still have the lowest percentage of poverty.
4. I believe that one day we will be seen as one, and people will look back at this time in day and think how stupid it was that it has gone on for so long. It may take a very long time to for this to occur, but I believe it will.
5. Casey L Period 3
Graduation rates vary greatly by state and race. Nationwide, black students graduated at a rate of 69 percent; Hispanics graduated at 73 percent; whites graduated at a rate of 86 percent.
ReplyDelete2.) http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-high-school-graduation-rates-by-race-ethnicity.html
3.) This statistic does not show his dream coming true because the percentage of the black students should be higher.
4.) I think that in time that percentage will change and his dream will become true. We are close and I believe we can get there.
5.) Cynthia Nava, 2