My Perspective: How The Urban And Rural Black American Can Beat The Odds With The Help Of The Black Middle Class And Social Media

In this book, I examine the effects of the educational, political, health, unemployment, financial, and criminal justice systems on Black American. I mainly focus on the period from President Johnson's Great Society. From his Great Society, came the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which caused many of us to move into the middle class, leaving behind our poorest. I discuss how each phase of our past history has determined our fate. I look at President Nixon and especially President Reagan, with their many attempts to take us back to the fifties. Most of those that moved up were the better educated, the stabilizing factor of our communities. We left our communities, moving to better neighborhoods, leaving behind our poorest and most vulnerable. I then give my perspective of how we (the Black-middle-class) can adopt the advocacy programs similar to those established by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). ACORN was established in 1970 and existed until after the election of President Obama. My goals, which are similar to ACORNs' goals is to establish an organization focusing on serving the most needy and vulnerable neighborhoods. But because ACORN was physically embedded in those communities, the costs were very expensive. Instead, we can use social media to provide many of the same tasks.

• | Author: Vivian Lewis
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 08, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1544870965
• | ISBN-13: 9781544870960