Poverty In Black America

African Americans have both privately and publically faced poverty. Their cries have long been ignored. Black poverty expands beyond their homes. It’s rooted deeply in their communities. It’s in the neighborhood stores, it’s in the community center. It’s in the schools that don’t educate, but merely instruct. It’s in the lack of effort and motivation to do better in life. And above all this, it’s in the hearts and minds of the children who neglect to find role models in their own homes.
According to Emily Badger (2015), in The Washington Post expresses that “a poor black family, in short, is much more likely than a poor white one to live in a neighborhood where many other families are poor too, creating what sociologists call the “double burden
According to an Article from BlackDemographics.com entitled Poverty in Black America “While 23% of all black families live below the poverty level only 8% of black married couples live in poverty” (p.2). This means that a black family will be more financially secure if both parents are present in the home. Marriage is a good solution to preventing poverty in the black home. A good contrast is the percent of poverty with a house led by a single black male compared to one led by a single black female. An astonishing 37.0% of single black females live in poverty compared to their male counterparts who only account for 23.7% of all black poverty in the
Derrick Bell says in his book “Faces at the bottom of the Well” that it is useless to depend on white America for equality, they will never allow for that. In the book he gives ways to help aid African Americans in dealing with racial subordination and he says that “black Americans must cope with the failure of their country to yield racial justice”. In the book topics include ethnic realism, African American homeland, interracial matrimony and relationships, and a racial “final