racism

King‘s widow, Coretta Scott King, believes We have made signifgicant progress in
             reducing social segregation however, ...sores of poverty, racism and violence continue... statistics show that the progress
             made by Black Americans has come to be rather slow. The percentage of families receiving income in each range, computed
             from 1986 dollars, show that since there is more poverty and more affluence, wider income gap exists between the blacks and
             whites in American society. ( NY Times Feb.29/88 pg.34) Three-fourths of the black males held jobs as service workers,
             material movers, and assemblers, all of which are manual labor jobs, with low wages. Blacks are not only encountering
             discrimination in their jobs and economic status, they are also facing discrimination by the television media. Movies are very
             much responsible for stereotyping blacks as violent, ignorant and racist. In such movies as Hard Cover and Point Blank have
             shown black people as a group infatuated with guns and drugs. One African American stated in an Oprah Winfrey‘s video
             take a thousand black men. One of them will do something unjust. The others abide the laws like everyone else. People only
             see the bad side of the black race. Most of what people think about blacks, comes from being infiltrated either through the
             media or by tradition. Perhaps if people were constantly being shown the good side of Black America, they might begin to think
             differently. There are several groups that have been created in benefit of the blacks, and for the protection of their rights.
             Among these we find, the NAACP. The NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the oldest,
             largest and strongest Civil Rights Organization of the United States. The principle objective of the NAACP, is to ensure the
             political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of the United States. The NAACP, was founded
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