On Jul 11, 2013, at 7:28 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Incarceration? booming. (One might want to argue that incarceration is better than lynching. But I suspect most would prefer a beating to ten years in jail.)
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> Voting rights? Declining due to recent SCOTUS decision and disenfranchisement due to incarceration.
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> Educational opportunities? Declining.
Incarceration rates peaked a few years ago and are declining slowly (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p11.pdf).
Black voter turnout in 2012 was at or near record levels, and in a long uptrend (http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/historical/a1-presidential2.jpg)
Share over over-25 black population with bachelor's or higher (http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/historical/tabA-2.xls):
2012 21.2% (68% of white rate) 2005 17.6 (63% of white rate) 2000 16.5 (63% of white rate) 1990 11.3 (51% of white rate) 1970 4.5 (41% of white rate)
But either nothing's changed or is getting worse, yes.
Doug
