Weekly Blog Post- Black Rights Today

"Although times have changed, the conditions facing black Americans today are just as daunting as the fire hoses and billy clubs of four decades ago. Today we think our society is close to equal. You only have to compare the lives of black and white children." The average black child is:

• one-and-a-half times more likely to grow up in a family whose head did not finish high school.
• twice as likely to be born to a teenage mother and two-and-a-half times more likely to have low birthweight. 
• three times more likely to live in a single parent home.
• four times more likely to have a mother who had no prenatal care. 
• four-and-a-half times more likely to live with neither parent. 
• five times as likely to depend solely on a mother’s earnings.
• nine times as likely to be a victim of homicide.

This part of the article really stood out to me because I thought our world was improving a lot more than I thought. The fact that studies show that black people are nine times as likely to be a victim of homicide makes me sick. What I question is "will we ever be equal or is it impossible?"  Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr spoke for African American rights and how the world needs equality. Our society needs to wake up and realize that even though we are all technically equal, certain races are still being discriminated.