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The American Dream and African Americans

but on the so called “niggers”, the stereotypical urban gangster, ignorant, and the one many blacks try to follow or imitate. It cannot come as a shock to anyone that there is everlasting black-on-black crime since Africans had been trading their own people since the 1600s with the Europeans for things such as rum, cloth, and guns .Since the beginning of time, humans have been playing the blame-game with each other. Many African Americans blame their economical, social, and racial problems and the white Americans. Who is really to blame? The majority of the population of prisons is African Americans . Blacks are the largest minority nevertheless many live in poverty and despair . A crucial element for the achievement of African Americans is education. Well-educated African Americans had a much better number of economic options . By 1984 only a little over half of the African Americans 25 years of age or older had graduated from high school and only around eight percent had finished college. In the University of Arizona the total percent of African American enrolling is 2.51 percent. The total minority percentage is 22.62. After seven years only 37 percent of African Americans had graduated. In UC Berkeley the percent of freshmen of African descent graduating within six years of entry in 1980 was 37.7. To get out of a predicament as one of the size that the African Americans have to deal with, education could be a very helpful and a critical element to accomplish what they want and need. Blacks are the largest minority, but they have the least percentages in universities. With role models like the rappers, young black Americans see on television one could never expect to see a black person get out of the ghetto. Not only is the richest one fifth of blacks earn 50 percent of the total income of the black community, but one third of African Americans are worse off economically today than since Martin Luther King died in 1968...

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