ICE BREAKER Video, f. 2Pac - Hold Ya Head

POVERTY DRUGS &

CRIME

HIV & AIDS

HEALTH

HOUSINGEMPLOYMENT

EDUCATION

SLIDE SHOW SUMMARY

“Hold Ya Head”

“My homeboys in Clinton and

Rikers Island

Mumia, Mutulu,

Geronimo Pratt,

All the Political Prisoners”…

POVERTY

DRUGS &

CRIME

HIV & AIDS

HEALTH

HOUSING

EMPLOYMENT

EDUCATION

The statistics that follow appear in thebook, The American Directory ofCertified Uncle Toms(Chicago:Lushena,2002) .The American Directory of CertifiedUncle Toms is a well documented,scholarly, and witty critique of the moststridently "Eurocentric" elements of theblack community.

“Hold Ya Head”

My People

POVERTY

While constituting roughly 13% of the totalpopulation, Black America represents nearly 30% of America's poor.

That compares with 11%, or 16 million, whites, who live in poverty; and 27%, or 8 million, Latinos.

Black family income is just 60% of white income and 43% of all Black children live beneath the poverty

Black children today are much more likelythan whites to lack early pre-natal care, andhave single mothers or unemployed parents.

White Americans possess 12 times theaverage net worth of Blacks.70% of elderly Blacks have no financialassets.

POVERTY

DRUGS & CRIME

For many Blacks, drug use (including alcohol) amounts to self-medication for depression rooted in hopelessness caused by white racism.

This medical need is exploited by a corrupt society hell-bent on criminalizing the Black race.

Blacks, who comprise only 13% of the population and account for about 13% of drug users, constitute 35% of all arrests for drug possession.

55% of all convictions on those charges, and 74% of all those sentenced to prison for possession.

DRUGS & CRIME

There is strong evidence that AIDS is a disease created by white bio-chemists and deliberately released in Africa through vaccination programs. Blacks account for 30% of people with AIDS in America.

54% of children under age 13 with AIDS are Black. HIV/AIDS is the number 1 cause of death for Blacks aged 25 to 44.

HIV & AIDS

The state of Black health scores below every other race in the U.S.

Every year 250,000 …are killed by the 10 biggest killers of Blacks of all ages: heart disease, cancer, stroke, AIDS, accidents, homicide, diabetes, pneumonia and influenza, chronic pulmonary diseases such as asthma and bronchitis, and infant mortality.

HEALTH

Blacks have a 60% higher diabetes-related mortality than whites and suffer 30% higher cardiovascular mortality, 25%higher cancer mortality (including breast cancer).

Blacks with prostate cancer are 2-3 times more likely to die than whites. African-American men have the highest rate of prostate cancer in the world. Blacks with lung cancer were 24% more likely than whites to die within 5 years.

HEALTH

Twenty-five percent of Blacks in the U.S. have no health insurance.

The rates of syphilis and gonorrhea are many times higher among Black teens than white.

90% of Black women suffer complications in pregnancy-a rate 3 times that of whites.

HEALTH

HOUSING

55% of Blacks live in the cities, while 70% of whites live in the suburbs or rural areas. Los Angeles and New York are ranked 2nd and 3rd behind Sao Paulo, Brazil, in their homeless population, and 80% of America's homeless are Black.

60% of the total Black population in the U.S. lives in communities with one or more uncontrolled toxic waste sites. 43% of Blacks and 68% of whites own their homes.

EMPLOYMENT

Black adult unemployment has remained twice as high as white unemployment for more than 30 years; 3 times as high among young people.

Black women make 89% of what white women make; Black men make 67% of what white men make. 53% of Black men aged 25-34 are either unemployed or earn too little to lift a family of 4 from poverty. 21% of Black high-school graduates are unemployed, 10% of whites.

69% of Black children cannot read in the 4th grade, compared with 29% among white children. Only 12% of Black high-school seniors are "proficient" readers, while 54% have "below basic" reading skills.

It is estimated that 40-44% of Blacks are functionally illiterate. Black children are almost 3 times more likely than white children to be labeled mentally retarded. Blacks are 2.5 times more likely to be placed in remedial or low-track classes.

EDUCATION

Two-thirds of "minorities" in public school fail to reach basic levels of national tests.

There continue to be marked disparities between Black and white students in the national SAT scores. 32% of all suspended students are Black.

Black students are twice as likely as whites to be suspended or expelled.

EDUCATION