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What is wrong with our people? After 50 years of civil rights, this is what we have come to. Who are our Sistas to marry and create future generations with?
COLLEGE CRISIS AMONG BLACK MALES
Basically, it's the same song different year.
*It's looking grim for black males and
higher education. Here's the bottom line:
nationally, a mere quarter of the 1.9 million
black men between 18 and 24 attended college
in 2000, the last year the American Council on
Education reported such statistics. By contrast,
35 percent of black women in the same age group
and 36 percent of all 18 to 24-year-olds were
attending college.
A grimmer statistic, according to the American
Council on Education, is that the graduation rate
of black men is the lowest of any population.
Only 35 percent of the black men who enrolled
in NCAA Division I schools in 1996 graduated within
six years. White men, on the other hand, graduated
at a rate of 59 percent; Hispanic men, 46 percent;
American Indian men, 41 percent; and black
women, 45 percent.
Where are the black men, why are so few
on our college campuses and why are so few
graduating?
"In 1999 there were 757,000 black men
in federal, state and local prisons," according
to the Autumn 2003 issue of the Journal of
Blacks in Higher Education. "In 1999 ... there
were 604,200 African-American men enrolled in
higher education in the United States. Therefore,
there were 25 percent more black men in prison
in the United States than were enrolled in institutions
of higher education. Today, black men make up 41
percent of the inmates in federal state, and local
prison, but black men are only 4 percent of all
students in American institutions of higher
education."
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