Afro Americans Poverty Among Afro Americans America Case Study

Afro Americans Poverty among Afro Americans

America has always been at the top in the counting of developed countries all over the world. In the past 50 years, the rate of poverty has somehow declined but one can say that it is only for a specified circle of society (Carrillo, 2012). The poverty rate fluctuated around 22.4% to 15.11% in the past 50 years (Iceland, 2012). Although the ratio has decreased but it's a considerable rate for country like USA. Here the question which is under consideration is the poverty rate of those Africans who have been living there for a very long time but they are the most under privileged community of this society as depicted by the researches and reports every year.

The report of Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage stated that 27.4% of Africans are living even below poverty line (Iceland, 2012). Afro-Americans also named as Blacks in America were generally brought in there as slaves and from then onwards Afro Americans were mostly kept as enslaved. They could hardly have the necessities of life in their crucial times in USA. According to statistics 38.1 million of American population is Africans who are facing serious slump in the acquisition of necessities of life like food, shelter (Shapiro, 2004). Their poverty and food insecurity rate is closely linked. From education to income, unemployment to nutrition assistance program everything has been neglected. However, one can also add to it that both Africans as well as Americans...

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In fact a generation has been at risk because if this poverty syndrome. To quote with Mississippi, Ankara, and Kentucky were at the poverty rates of 36%, 36.4% and 36.2% respectively and this shows how the democrats of American government set the Afro-Americans aside (Iceland, 2012). Moreover, in some of the states of America the Afro-American poverty rate is double the rate of general poverty throughout the country. The metro areas of New York-Northern New Jersey, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Miami Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Dallas-Fort, Washington, D.C are even more sufferers of scarcity at a considerable tendency (Ellis & Carlson, 2012).
In the past, the way Africans were treated is still in the minds of their race. This sense of insecurity never let them to put their heads on the record to get their rights and gain the best of what life could offer. Americans not openly accepted Africans and so their moral keep on lessening with the passage of time and they remain stuck where they were decades before with enslaved minds (Polednak, 1997). Africans even if try to move a step ahead then the mind sets they had and brought up of their lives never allowed them to have a courage for themselves. It seemed as genetically Africans were marked to remain under-privileged and that is…

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References

Carrillo, K.J. (2012). African-American History Day by Day. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

Ellis, C.M., & Carlson, J. (2012). Cross Cultural Awareness and Social Justice in Counseling. Newyork: Taylor & Francis.

Iceland, J. (2012). Poverty in America . Berkeley: University of California Press.

Polednak, A.P. (1997). Segregation, Poverty, and Mortality in Urban African-Americans. New York: Oxford University Press.


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