That Your Child Won’t Get an Education as Good as He Deserves
The statistics are staggering, proving how much the U.S. education system is designed to ensure that Black students won’t receive an adequate education. Public school students of color get more punishment and less access to veteran teachers than their white peers, according to the U.S. Education Department. Black students are suspended or expelled at triple the rate of their white peers, according to the U.S. Education Department’s 2011-2012 Civil Rights Data Collection. Five percent of white students were suspended annually, compared with 16 percent of Black students. Black girls were suspended at a rate of 12 percent — far greater than girls of other ethnicities and most categories of boys. At the same time, minority students have less access to experienced teachers. Seven percent of Black students attend schools where as many as 20 percent of teachers fail to meet license and certification requirements. And one in four school districts pay teachers in less-diverse high schools $5,000 more than teachers in schools with higher Black and Latino student enrollment.
That Your Salary Will Be Lower Than Your White Colleague Who Has Less Experience
Everywhere you turn, in every industry in the U.S., Black workers are paid less than whites. In 1970, Black men earned 69 percent of what white men earned in the U.S. while Black women earned just 48 percent — less than half. Over the next 40 years, the closest Black men ever got to white men was in 1999, at 80.6 percent of what white men earned. After 1999, Black men fell back, eventually to 74.5 percent in 2010. For Black women, the closest they ever got to white men was the latest figure, 69.6 percent in 2010. The statistics show that even in this new millennium, white supremacy still reigns supreme. Incidentally, since 2004, white women have been earning more than Black men. In 2010, white women earned 80.5 percent of what white men earned. Researchers have found that despite the claims that corporations will pay a premium for Black women, believing that they will get two minorities for the price of one, this has never been the case. In fact, Black and Hispanic women vie for last place on the earnings pyramid at every level of education, and the gender pay gap actually increases with higher education for Black, white and Hispanic women.
