Minorities Still Behind

According to a Census report, disparities between minorities and whites are increasing, not decreasing.

Why is the Census Bureau doing these kinds of surveys? The U. S. Constitution says the Census Bureau will count the population every ten years.

Despite trillions of dollars spent during the past four decades and hundreds of government programs to help minorities, the disparities are greater than before. The government programs have failed. So why do people want more of the same things that caused the failures? If a business continued to provide you with poor service you would go elsewhere. So why do people not go elsewhere, the private sector, when government fails?

After the Civil War black families began to recover from slavery. After 5 generations, by 1964, the black families had increased the two parent households. There were private black colleges. A large industry of black family networks were established. Family networks are what made the Jews so successful, despite centuries of discrimination.

Then the Civil Rights Act of 1964 started the slow spiral that would destroy the black families. Soon blacks realized they could play the victim against "Whitey's" guilty. It became easier to survive by collecting government benefits than it was to face the daily grind of the workplace. Failure was accepted in the black culture because it was easy to be a victim.

It is time for the government to stop all programs designed to "Promote the general welfare." These government programs damage the general welfare.

Bilbo Baggins
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The Associated Press
Nov 13, 2006


WASHINGTON - Decades after the civil rights movement, racial disparities in income, education and home ownership persist and, by some measurements, are growing.

White households had incomes that were two-thirds higher than blacks and 40 percent higher than Hispanics last year, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

White adults were also more likely than black and Hispanic adults to have college degrees and to own their own homes. They were less likely to live in poverty.

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