In America’s past, African Americans have dealt with racial inequality since the 1800’s. In the 1960’s Martin Luther King became a huge African American leader in the hope of equality. All of his work started to pay off as the movement exploded they gained more support which, then made the government change the laws in the United States. This ended up being a very positive and successful movement, but fast forward to 2016 and it has almost gone backwards because of all the hate and racial issues. Even though people have an optimistic view of equality in America, Martin Luther King’s dream is not possible nor achievable in modern society due to biological truth of human nature and social inequality. Martin Luther King Jr’s dream is non-achievable
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In the African American community they lag behind in homeownership, household wealth, and median income. These differences also continue into the their education and opportunities because depended on where you live can make of break your education. Long-standing racial differences in family structure is also a factor in todays life, non-marital births are more than twice as common among black mothers as white mothers, and black children are nearly three times as likely as white children to be living with a single parent. America’s four hundred richest people now have as much wealth as the nation’s entire African’American population which is over 14 million households. With this statistic it shows that African Americans are put at disadvantages with their education, household, and poverty. “Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being” -Amartya Sen. Ever since the United States became a country one race in particular that has always been at a disadvantage which is the African American community. Ever since this happened it has just been getting worse and worse. Now it is such a huge disadvantage, that it is physically and mentally impossible to make every one social and economically
In the African American community they lag behind in homeownership, household wealth, and median income. These differences also continue into the their education and opportunities because depended on where you live can make of break your education. Long-standing racial differences in family structure is also a factor in todays life, non-marital births are more than twice as common among black mothers as white mothers, and black children are nearly three times as likely as white children to be living with a single parent. America’s four hundred richest people now have as much wealth as the nation’s entire African’American population which is over 14 million households. With this statistic it shows that African Americans are put at disadvantages with their education, household, and poverty. “Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being” -Amartya Sen. Ever since the United States became a country one race in particular that has always been at a disadvantage which is the African American community. Ever since this happened it has just been getting worse and worse. Now it is such a huge disadvantage, that it is physically and mentally impossible to make every one social and economically