t urban rebellions in the northern black ghettoes.In present day America the social barriers still exist for many African Americans. African Americans are denied from jobs that they are truly qualified for. Often blacks and Latinos are forced to compete for insufficient and inadequate resources in education, health social service employment and economic development an housing There is also a lot discrimination. Since 1995, the revocation of the affirmative action bill, the number of African Americans being accepted into the prestigious colleges has been reduced. (Mitchel P , 1996, p 342)African Americans also suffer from illiteracy and the poor education that they receive in the public schooling systems. Oakland school Board attempted to help the African American student by proposing a bill that educated the teachers on the format of the Ebonics language but that was denied. Another barrier would be the racial profiling. Racial profiling allows for police to pull over African American males that are driving for no logical reason; except for that fact that they are black. Also, the government has lowered the standards for felonies amd the crimes that have to be committed for blacks to go to jail. A lot of women are raising their kids by themselves. Broken homes are not beneficial especially when the mother is sole provider when the dad is locked up. Because of the pressure and stress usually allows the kid to live in a mentally abusive household.Favoritism in the political community still remains to this day. African Americans representation is minimal in Congress so how much could their voice really count. Racial apportionment within the districts allows for the African voice not to count regardless if the population in a particular area is of a great number. A black politician named Edward Brooke is senator of Massachusetts, talked proper. He was fair skinned and still put in the generalization of African American and this narrow-min...
