[USA] Forty Acres and a Gap in Wealth / New York Times, 18 November 2007
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HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr.
"The Pew Research Center published the astonishing finding that 37 percent of African-Americans polled felt that “blacks today can no longer be thought of as a single race” because of a widening class divide. “By a ratio of 2 to 1,” the report says, “blacks say that the values of poor and middle-class blacks have grown more dissimilar over the past decade. In contrast, most blacks say that the values of blacks and whites have grown more alike.” The message here is that it is time to examine the differences between black families on either side of the divide for clues about how to address an increasingly entrenched inequality. We can’t afford to wait any longer to address the causes of persistent poverty among most black families."
Optimism about Black Progress Declines: Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class: Survey conducted in association with National Public Radio / Pew Research Center, 13 NOVEMBER 2007
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