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SNIPPETS OF ARTICLE FROM MSNBC
The result: In 2004, a typical black family had an income that was only 58 percent of a typical white family?s. In 1974, median black incomes were 63 percent those of whites.
?Too many Americans, whites and even some blacks, think that the playing field has indeed leveled,? said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League.
It has not, he added.
?We are like fingers on the hand,? Morial said of black and white Americans. ?We are on the same hand, but we are separate fingers.?
Morial blamed the disparities on inadequate schools in black neighborhoods, workplace discrimination and too many black families with only one parent.
?The public policy commitment to this has been sketchy over the last 30 years,? Morial said. ?There has not been a real focus on this.?
We could go on and on
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