Final Blog Post

In Chaos or Community, Martin Luther King briefly offers some interesting, yet disturbing numerical evidence evaluating African Americans' status during the Civil Rights Movement in 1967. King delves into the Constitution and expresses "a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was 60 percent of a person." As alarming as this is, he continues on providing statistics of the infant mortality rate being double that of whites. The numerical discrepancies are reported in the Vietnam War, where African-American soldiers who fought and died were twice as many as whites. The educational institution was not spared either. In elementary schools, black students fell three years behind white schools, and 1/20 as many African-Americans ever achieved becoming college students as white Americans. The demographic and economic discrimination facing African-Americans also involved an emotional form of discrimination where King accounts that 50% of white Americans objected to having black neighbors. I believe this data suggests that the underdeveloped, uneducated, and unequal circumstances that accounted for the African-American status was structurally implanted in the US government. The evidence here reveals the bereavement of ever achieving true equality. According to the New York Times article, Whites Account for Under Half of Births in the U.S., Sabrina Tavernise, offers a contemporary overview in the changing demographics. I concur that the data indicates, "minorities accounted for 92% of the nations population growth in the decade that ended in 2010" is not just indicative of these changing demographics. I believe white Americans must acknowledge now, more than ever, their social dilemmas are identical to that of blacks, Hispanics, and others under the minority description. This may be a blessing in disguise in propelling change in America. Hopefully, for the best. Since the civil rights era forms of discrimination are still masqueraded in America, whether it may be social, political, etc. the white population will not receive the special privileges of elite stature. No face of a specific race will receive special treatment. Probably the only change for improvement, although small, has been toleration for one another. The majority of us are now the minority.