More than one hundred fifty years have passed since after passage of the 15th amendment and over 50 years since passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and it is painfully obvious that America cannot simply legislate its way out of racial discrimination.
Three in five Americans believe that Blacks still remain the most frequent victims of racial discrimination.
The numbers suggest that even this perception understates the reality. Median income for Blacks is 58% of median income for Whites and 20% lower for Blacks than for Hispanics.
Unemployment among Blacks is nearly 20% higher than for Whites.
Abortion bans deny all women the opportunity to plan families, and the marked decrease in abortion-related deaths among Black women while Roe v. Wade was law makes it clear that abortion bans disproportionately impact Black women. Before Roe v. Wade, women who died as the result of illegal abortions were typically Black, and had self-induced in their own communities.
Blacks are 2.3 times as likely to be shot by a police officer as Whites.
A monumental amount of work still remains to realize the dream… and there is an opportunity to jump-start the effort by electing a like-minded Congress in November.
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