Systemic Racism Blocking Black Americans: Civil Rights Group
The National Urban League released its annual report on Tuesday. The report states that blacks are behind whites in key areas such as wealth, education and social justice. According to the civil rights organization the Equality Index, which compiles the average results for races in many areas of life and shows that Black Americans still get 73.9 percent less than whites, despite having made economic and health improvements. The organization said this demonstrates the difficulty of trying to combat racism that is systemic for people of color. "These numbers are changing so small and only slow. It tells me that the racial disparity in society based upon race seems to have been built into American society," Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, stated. The index revealed that the median household income for Black people, at $43,862, is about 37 percent less than that of white people, at $69,823. Black Americans are also less likely to benefit from ...