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The statistics presented in this document are interesting. However, it doesn't say where they come from. Did this religious organization conduct a survey??

Who am I to say what they should be doing?? I'm not in their shoes, I just notice that they rarely speak out on issues that affect the Black community.

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Well if you point out what they're not doing, I thought you had a suggestion for what they should be doing...but I see you're just putting that out there, so thats cool.
What issues do you feel affect the black community that they should be speaking out on? And is this the responsibility of the Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor?

My rant....
And as far as your stats, your "facts" do nothing to disprove or even address the issues I posted. Education, money, the economy, etc are not the reasons why the black community is in the current state it is. Our family units were tighter when we had less money, less education, and less opportunities. The problem is the dismantling of the family.


....but back to Brak....:D

I posted those statistics to prove that anyone can pull something out of the sky that will prove their point. That's a known fact.

You chose to provide information saying that there are issues with our community and provide no plausible solutions. So the purpose of this dialogue is what??

I'm done.

you were done before you started lol...If there was no purpose, you shouldn't have engaged in it :D

Naw, I just see this going back and forth. Something I don't have energy for today. :D

Both Obama abd Cosby are on point with their comments. People may not like where or how they say it, but it needs to be said because yes, some of our coomunities are in serious decline. Now granted that doesn't negate what good things people/organizations are trying to do. If anything, it should be a call to ALL OF US to do something and to not depend on someone else (whether black, white, the gov't, NAACP, whomever) to be our "saving grace".

Yes I did, several times. The typical response was less than stellar. Don't get me wrong, I may not have been close to my black peers but I never let that limit me. You can only hang out with people that want to hang out with you. I have not yet nor will I ever give up on my people.

Coming from someone who was treated like utter shit from both white and black people, I'm glad I am not the only person who feels this way.

Join the club. No one is immune from being bogusly (is that a word? it is now)

I wonder what would have happened if Bush went to the NAACP convention and gave the same speech that Barak gave?

BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE
 

BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE
By Dr. Maya Angelou
Because we have forgotten our ancestors our children no longer give us honor.

Because we have lost the path our ancestors cleared, kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.

Because we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children can not pray.

Because the long wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing, our children cannot hear us crying.

Because we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor understand.

Because we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, and holds us up to the mirror of the world, shouting, Regard the loveless.

Therefore, we pledge to bind ourselves again to one another;
To embrace our lowliest,
To keep company with our loneliest,
To educate our illiterate,
To feed our starving,
To clothe our ragged,
To do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters.

In honor of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation,

We make this pledge.

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• Percentage of African-American adults in 1960 who had completed high school: 20.1%
• Percentage of African-American adults in 2002 who had completed high school: 78.7% (U.S. Department of Education)


• Percentage of black schoolchildren ages 5 to 17 in 1979 who had at least one parent who graduated from high school: 49.9%
• Percentage of black schoolchildren ages 5 to 17 in 2001 who had at least one parent who graduated from high school: 87.7% (National Center for Education Statistics)

• Percentage of all 16- to 24-year-old blacks in the United States in 2000 who were high school dropouts: 13.1% (National Center for Education Statistics

Must we really post stats all day?? I'm sorry for having faith in my community.:rolleyes:

It would cause an uproar. Why? Intentions. Barack is concerned with improving the conditions of African-Americans, our President does not (I'll extend that statement to include the impoverished as well).


And enough with the Stats! We should all know by now that one can find stats to support ANY argument.

It definitely would have caused an uproar but I think its because the African American community doesn't like anyone that's not African American to call them out on certain behaviors. As you can see, when I post things, I get called names all day and is accused either self hate or not having faith in my community. Look at how Bill Cosby is treated. Some people prefer to look at the world through Rose Colored Glasses while others like myself like to be realistic.