Whites Get Richer-Blacks Get Poorer!

The economy has gotten better but for whom?
Recent data is showing that whites are getting
richer and blacks are getting poorer and I'm sure
that this is just not occurring In the nations capitol.
Something must be done to spread the wealth of
this nation or times of the sixties will rear it's ugly
head. Check out the article below and feel free to make
suggestions on this grave situation.


Over the last decade Washington, D.C. has been undergoing an economic boom which ironically appears to have made the nation's capital whiter and whiter while increasing numbers of Blacks remaining in the city have become poorer and poorer.

In 1957, Washington, D.C. became the first major American city to achieve a majority Black population. By 1970, the African American percentage of the city's population had reached 70 percent.

However, according to 2006 Census data the percentage has now declined to 57 percent. Meanwhile, in a report released last week by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, nearly one of every Black five residents of the city lives in poverty - the highest percentage in nearly a decade.

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