Upper-middle class: successful, their own houses, very well-paid jobs, qualified, children receive a good education and can expect a hopeful future, still prejudices against even these well-off people; some whites are envious
→ experience insults, still discriminated against
lower-middle class: a relative good life, many are in service jobs, low-paid, need to have second jobs, save money to send children to college
lower class: jobs without qualification, wages sometimes even below to the poverty line, live in poor areas (a lot of crime)
→ bad prospects for the children’s future, big unemployment rate
underclass: can’t afford a good education for their children, socially disabled group of poor people;
A major problem of the black underclass is the huge increase in one-parent households of 58 %; poverty: the dangers they face in the ghettos are drugs, violence from street gangs and other crimes, live mostly on welfare
→ can’t escape the situation in which the find themselves (VICIOUS CIRCLE)
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-As an solution for all the problems an organization in Pittsburgh was founded named Emanon. Its aim is to empower youth by enabling them to found their own enterprises. Having jobs the youths needn’t use violence or sell drugs in order to get money to support their families. The most of the companies had such a success that many youngsters found their own businesses. This development must be continued so that even more teenagers can achieve success in their future than they have achieved in the past.
-teenagers in these poor areas often think there’s only one type of career brought a lot of money in this world and that’s the criminal way, but a lot of them had to pay a high price; they get in jail, but some blacks make it to a better life by working hard and having good luck
-most of these teenagers in the ghettos find themselves in a vicious circle, because they can’t pay the school fees for the college and so they try to get money illegally ,in order to make the ends meet. Some of them get in jail, others are murdered by gangs. In such a bad situation they become aware of don’t having any chances for a good life and they ask why god didn’t give them better prospects for the future. For if you could be shooted when
you’re walking down the streets then you don’t wonder about your future, but you think about tomorrow.
What was started in the 1960's has not been completed - not by a long shot. The racial flare-ups on college
campuses, in inner cities, in high schools, and even in elementary schools -- all are evidence that much needs to be done before the USA can experience ethnic harmony.
The roots of racism go back to the institution of slavery and the use of white supremacy theories to justify this institution. Although primarily directed against Blacks, the legacy of these theories includes prejudice against other non-white ethnic groups as well. You cannot expect to eradicate overnight a social poison that has had nearly 400 years to spread through the human root system of America. In many ways the Black-white situation is worse today than in the 1960's. There is greater despair, less hope and less opportunity to escape from poverty and misery among Blacks now than in the 60's. An underclass has emerged that is growing in size and anger. Cut off from the mainstream of America, it has created its own set of mores, laws, and economies like drugs.
