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How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America
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In Getting It Wrong, Algernon Austin reveals
the errors and distortions of more than a dozen of America's
leading black public intellectuals about the state of
black America.
Black public intellectuals are claiming that black America
has declined since the Civil Rights movement. Henry
Louis Gates Jr. states that there are more blacks in
poverty today than in the 1960s. The U.S. Census Bureau,
however, informs us that 42 percent of blacks were in
poverty in 1966 and 25 percent of blacks were in poverty
in 2004. The black poverty rate has declined significantly
since the 1960s. Gates is getting it wrong.
John McWhorter claims that blacks are doing worse educationally
today than in the 1960s. The long-term trends of the
Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational
Progress tests show that black students have made significant
improvements in their educational achievement over the
last 30 years. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education's
Higher Education Equality Index also shows that blacks
have made considerable advances in higher education
over the last 30 years. McWhorter is getting it wrong.
Bill Cosby suggests that the black teenage pregnancy
rate has increased greatly since the 1960s. The National
Center for Health Statistics shows that the black teenage
pregnancy rate was 156.1 births per 1,000 teenage girls
in 1960. By 2003, the black teenage pregnancy rate had
declined nearly 60 percent to 63.8 births per 1,000.
Cosby is getting it wrong.
Getting
It Wrong shows that many of America's leading black
public intellectuals have been spreading false stereotypes
about blacks. Blacks have made significant positive
progress since the Civil Rights movement. Getting
It Wrong challenges black public intellectuals to
get their facts right.
Algernon Austin has taught sociology at Wesleyan University.
He is currently the Director of the Thora Institute
LLC and editor of the Institute's Black Directions
reports on the state of black America.
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