samuel Grioonaute régulier
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Posté le: Mar 28 Mar 2006 20:44 Sujet du message: A la redaction de grioo.com |
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Chers amis de Grioo.com. Je voudrais vous demmander de verifier vops informations avant de les poster et de les faire passer pour une verite indiscutable. Ainsi par exemple dans le sujet intitule "La Situation reste dramatique pour les hommes noirs américains", vous ecriviez en legende la photo qui figure sur l'article: IL Y A PLUS D'HOMMES NOIRS EN PRISON QU'A L'UNIVERSITE AUX ETATS-UNIS.
Eh bien! C'EST COMPLETEMENT FAUX ET CELA DEPUIS PLUS DE 12 ANS!!!!
C'est encore une de ces legendes qu'on raconte et que tout le monde repete sans verification. Moi-meme personnellement j'ai ete parfois pris au piege jusqu'a ce qu'on m'ait demontre le caractere anachronique de cette idee. Si, grosso-modo, c'etait vrai dans les annees 60 a 80, ca ne l'est plus du tout aujourd'hui. Au contraire meme IL YA PLUS D'HOMMES NOIRS A L'UNIVERSITE QUE DE FEMMES ET HOMMES CUMULES EN PRISON.
Je vous poste ci-dessous un article tire de la revue noire "Essence" et qui date de...1995!!! A l'epoque deja ils demontraient que c'etait faux. A plus forte raison aujourd'hui.
Nous n'avons pas a encenser la politique americaine a l'egard de nos freres car leur sitaution est loin d'etre brillante. Mais ce n'est pas une raison pour laisser circuler des contre-verites sans reagir d'autant que les Noirs doivent a eux-memes les progres accomplis et a personne d'autre. Ce serait donc une injure a leur encontre que de vehiculer des mensonges.
Citation: | Item: 'There are more Black men of college age in jail than in college.' It ain't necessarily so - popular myths about African Americans
Essence, March, 1995 by George E. Jordan
Few things can be as frustrating as dispelling a lie that has the ring of truth, particularly if it has taken on a sinister life of its own by being bantered about and repeated again and again.
Take the one about there being more Black men of college age in jail than in college. The truth is that there are more African-American men in college--517,000 as recently as 1991 in undergraduate, graduate and professional schools--than Black men and women combined in state and federal jails. In fact, the proportion of Black male high-school graduates enrolling in college, about 30 percent, has held steady for at least three decades.
In 1991 about 478,100 of all Black male college students were undergraduates attending four-year college. On the other hand, federal statistics show there were 395,245 Black males and females in state and federal prisons in 1991. Even if you include the number of Black men in custody--that is, free on bond awaiting trial or on probation--it probably would not exceed the number of brothers enrolled in institutions of higher learning. So the next time you hear somebody share that piece of misinformation, set her straight.
We African-Americans have many assumptions and perceptions about ourselves that aren't necessarily so. Maybe it's time we found out the real deal--about our men, women, money, love and families. Based upon the most recent available data from journals, the U.S. Department of Commerce's statistical reports, newspaper and magazine articles and interviews with some of the nation's leading demographers, here and the facts. |
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