Historically black colleges should continue to support the needs of African Americans students and the also the needs of growing Hispanics because it give adults another chance to educate themselves for the better. From the ones that does poor on test, low income, young parents, drop outs, and the ones that contain a criminal record. These are all people that are seeking for another chance in life and HBCUS are here to provide forgiveness. Horace Mann said, “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin ... the great equalizer of the conditions of men - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.” Sadly a Degree is the only thing that African Americans and Hispanics can contain to compete in the real world to be considered eligible for a job. Education is the equilibrium in United States and Historically Black Colleges and University has proven that fact plenty of times with the success of having alumni’s that accomplished the unbelievable and unthinkable. HBCUS knows living life not being white in society is arduous in especially in modern times because during this generation we are undergoing an open racism society. Not only against whites but every ethnic group even our own. I say this because Blacks and Hispanics are being degraded and Historically Black College and Universities give us an environment for the moment to not be reminded that Blacks and Hispanics are considered the inferior and make us superior in mind, body, and soul. Hispanics and Blacks need to come together because we are the race that people point their finger to when things in society are wrong. For example we are the race with the highest drop out rates, pregnancy, and the highest race in jail. We need to change these statistics by working together doing more community services and become a role model for the young and get involved in the Big Brother and Sister Program especially in college to show them that college. Because if we reach out to the young ages and becoame a role model they will view life and education as a requirement for gaining money and not stealing and ****.We must give confidence and love back that we have lost through the struggles and the constant battles of failure. Furthermore remind us that we are the youth of progress and were can change even more then our ancestors. When Blacks are Hispanics graduates it give them a purpose and send them off with a mission. A Mission that All Historically Black Colleges and University supplies, which is not to forget your past because you’re past will make the future and is the instigator of your life work. With the ambition of Og Mandino saying, “I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.” A person that A Historically Black College had made and craft to perfection.
African American and hispanics in the United States should work together as minorities to address political, cultural, communication and community issues because it has a major impact on their lives. African american and hispanics or "minorities" as we are described contribute to a total of 55% of the population, the other 45% is split between the asian and caucasion population. What that means is that there is strength in numbers. If we as a whole would come together and sit in venues involving cultural topics to make decisions that would ultimately affect our lives there would not be an acceptance of the unknown. Not getting involved or simply not knowing or being afraid to step outside the box hinders us from knowing whats going on in our communities and just accepting it, when it is up to us to educate and make change.
In terms of what can be done to strengthen the relationship between the African American and Hispanic community is education. We as a whole community need to stand together and educate each other on our own history. It is important for us to know who we are, not just by our own experiences but those who have lived before us. Understanding what makes us different, what makes us strong, why do we like what we like or dislike what we dislike. What makes you passionate about wanting to accomplish your goals and seeking your dreams. Most people form opinions and judge people without having a valid reason. How awesome would it be if you opened yourself up to the unknown and allowed yourself to grow because now not only are you educated but you understand.
Historically Black Colleges & Universities should support the needs of African American students and the afro-hispanic population by giving back to the communities. They can offer scholarships to those students whose families cannot afford to send their children to college. They can go to schools in the communities and give lectures and guidance on the important of education and allow them to see that there may be obstacles on your way to success but let nothing and no one stand in your way from accomplishing your goals. There is a always a question as you get older and want to further your education. What do you want to be when you grow up? That question is not a make believe question, it's real. If you put your mind to it, you can be anything you want to be through education, you just have to want it bad enough. They can also offer a full scholarship to 2 or 3 students a year. Basically, alot can be done if we just pull together and give hope to those who are hopeless.
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I think the African Americans and Hispanics in the United States should work together as minorities to address political, cultural, communication, and community issues; because I feel that the region has experienced significant growth in racial and ethnic diversity over the past several decades, racial minority groups continue to struggle for full acceptance and equal opportunity. I feel that the political is part of the report persistent discrimination in the workplace, in seeking housing, and in their day-to-day encounters with other metro area residents. I feel that the cultural is these sentiments arise within a region whose majority population may believe that racial discrimination is no longer a serious issue. I feel that the communication is the large shares of African Americans and Hispanics say they feel unwelcome in marketplaces and residential communities throughout the region. I also feel about in which is those turbulent times, thousands of racial and ethnic minorities have settled in the city and region. Growing diversity and the passage of time may have led to a sense among some area residents that the city of Boston’s racial divisiveness is a relic of the past, and that the area’s wells of racial intolerance have subsided. Although, I could feel in my minds about black people and Hispanic racial strife is nowhere near the levels of the racial intolerance and racial inequality have not fully subsided. Instead, they have taken new forms and have moved across the region. As greater numbers of racial minorities have come to reside in the region’s central and satellite cities.
I believe that the whites have continued their decades-long migration to the farthest reaches of the outer suburbs. I have notice of them as the Oprah’s show about African American and Hispanic today is thus a deeply segregated region, and such segregation has had the effect of isolating many racial minorities in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and severe social and economic distress. Within this context of significant racial inequality, perceptions of racial discrimination among the region’s most disadvantaged groups of African Americans and Hispanics are remain very high. This finding emerges from a poll of over 400 African American and Hispanic adults.
I think I believe the African American can be done to strengthen the relationship by believing that fear of resident antipathy prevents members of their group from moving into communities around the region. I will say about African American that almost 70 percent of Hispanics and an overwhelming 85 percent of African Americans believe that members of their group miss out on good housing because they fear they will not be welcome in a particular community. Minorities of higher socioeconomic status are equally as likely, and in some cases more likely, than their lower status counterparts to say they have experienced different forms of racial discrimination in Metro Boston. Women in our sample are more likely to perceive that major forms of discrimination are a problem in the region, while men are more likely to report personal experiences with some forms of day-to-day discrimination.
I also believe that the Hispanic’s communities living within the United States can be done to strengthen the relationship by providing them some place to live when one out of four total respondents say they have been denied a job because of their race or ethnicity in the past ten years, and one in five say they have experienced racial discrimination during their last year at work. In contrast, one out of eight says they had a personal experience of discrimination the last time they looked for housing. Two out of three total respondents believe that discrimination by White Hispanic owners and realtors continues to hinder their access to good housing, although lower shares believe they have experienced housing discrimination themselves. I will say there are more than three out of four respondents believed that the lack of affordable housing in the region hinders African Americans’ and Hispanics’ access to good housing. Respondents thus cite affordability more often than discrimination as a barrier to good housing in Metro Boston.
I also believe who live in Boston or California who is not from United States by African Americans and Hispanics should be done to integrate the region’s schools. I will say my support for this position is especially strong among respondents who are young, male, never married, and with lower incomes who have low-self esteem when they are poor.
I will say in my opinion about African American Students will probably needs of the growing Hispanic population in the United States to get private tutors on one on one for many classes subject in order for them to succeed in life. I believe that Historically Black College & Universities continue to support the needs of African American Students and possibly the needs of the growing Hispanic, because high levels of perceived discrimination among minority groups have serious implications for the region. Perceptions of discrimination and sentiments of fear for even if inaccurate is real forces that affect where people choose to live and conduct their daily lives. Perceptions of racial discrimination can affect the decisions of talented minorities within the region to stay or to leave; perceptions can also travel and affect the decisions of minorities outside the region to settle in the area. Such decisions have important social and economic consequences for a state that is currently losing population.
I think that African American Students and Hispanic is suggests that perceptions of discrimination lead to higher levels of psychological stress and negative emotional outcomes. My beliefs among minority groups that racial discrimination is a persistent phenomenon can therefore add to the public health costs of the region. In my addition, social trust and positive civic interactions among majority and minority communities are likely to diminish when large numbers of minorities believe that they cannot gain full social acceptance or access to a full range of economic opportunities, even if they work hard and achieve middle class status. Inter-group tensions only worsen when Whites do not recognize the serious social and economic barriers that minority group’s face, and when they do little to remedy the broader social conditions and specific behaviors that underlie minorities’ claims of unequal treatment. They must take significant steps to end the racial isolation that underlies interracial ignorance, misunderstanding, and fear. Policy measures the region should take include rigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws in employment and housing; increased recruitment of racial minorities in all segments of the workforce; and renewed commitment to increasing affordable housing and minority access to housing across the entire region. Educators and civic leaders should maintain efforts within public schools to help young people of diverse backgrounds come together to learn to understand each other and function harmoniously within a shared community. There should be sustained efforts through community and faith-based organizations to promote inter-group conversation and interracial acceptance.
Finally, I came to the conclusion that they have an ongoing responsibility to report on the deep racial inequalities that exist in the region, and to help the public understand and discuss the broader social contexts that contribute to these inequalities. As the region continues to grow more racially and ethnically diverse, and as the White population continues to shrink, the future social, economic, and civic health of the region depend on the ability of all the people in Metro Boston to live and work alongside each other with interracial understanding and trust. Within a rapidly changing Metro Boston population, ignorance of persistent minority disadvantage across the region and passive acceptance of its multiple social causes may only heighten racial polarization.
I think the African Americans and Hispanics in the United States should work together as minorities to address political, cultural, communication, and community issues; because I feel that the region has experienced significant growth in racial and ethnic diversity over the past several decades, racial minority groups continue to struggle for full acceptance and equal opportunity. I feel that the political is part of the report persistent discrimination in the workplace, in seeking housing, and in their day-to-day encounters with other metro area residents. I feel that the cultural is these sentiments arise within a region whose majority population may believe that racial discrimination is no longer a serious issue. I feel that the communication is the large shares of African Americans and Hispanics say they feel unwelcome in marketplaces and residential communities throughout the region. I also feel about in which is those turbulent times, thousands of racial and ethnic minorities have settled in the city and region. Growing diversity and the passage of time may have led to a sense among some area residents that the city of Boston’s racial divisiveness is a relic of the past, and that the area’s wells of racial intolerance have subsided. Although, I could feel in my minds about black people and Hispanic racial strife is nowhere near the levels of the racial intolerance and racial inequality have not fully subsided. Instead, they have taken new forms and have moved across the region. As greater numbers of racial minorities have come to reside in the region’s central and satellite cities.
I believe that the whites have continued their decades-long migration to the farthest reaches of the outer suburbs. I have notice of them as the Oprah’s show about African American and Hispanic today is thus a deeply segregated region, and such segregation has had the effect of isolating many racial minorities in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and severe social and economic distress. Within this context of significant racial inequality, perceptions of racial discrimination among the region’s most disadvantaged groups of African Americans and Hispanics are remain very high. This finding emerges from a poll of over 400 African American and Hispanic adults.
I think I believe the African American can be done to strengthen the relationship by believing that fear of resident antipathy prevents members of their group from moving into communities around the region. I will say about African American that almost 70 percent of Hispanics and an overwhelming 85 percent of African Americans believe that members of their group miss out on good housing because they fear they will not be welcome in a particular community. Minorities of higher socioeconomic status are equally as likely, and in some cases more likely, than their lower status counterparts to say they have experienced different forms of racial discrimination in Metro Boston. Women in our sample are more likely to perceive that major forms of discrimination are a problem in the region, while men are more likely to report personal experiences with some forms of day-to-day discrimination.
I also believe that the Hispanic’s communities living within the United States can be done to strengthen the relationship by providing them some place to live when one out of four total respondents say they have been denied a job because of their race or ethnicity in the past ten years, and one in five say they have experienced racial discrimination during their last year at work. In contrast, one out of eight says they had a personal experience of discrimination the last time they looked for housing. Two out of three total respondents believe that discrimination by White Hispanic owners and realtors continues to hinder their access to good housing, although lower shares believe they have experienced housing discrimination themselves. I will say there are more than three out of four respondents believed that the lack of affordable housing in the region hinders African Americans’ and Hispanics’ access to good housing. Respondents thus cite affordability more often than discrimination as a barrier to good housing in Metro Boston.
I also believe who live in Boston or California who is not from United States by African Americans and Hispanics should be done to integrate the region’s schools. I will say my support for this position is especially strong among respondents who are young, male, never married, and with lower incomes who have low-self esteem when they are poor.
I will say in my opinion about African American Students will probably needs of the growing Hispanic population in the United States to get private tutors on one on one for many classes subject in order for them to succeed in life. I believe that Historically Black College & Universities continue to support the needs of African American Students and possibly the needs of the growing Hispanic, because high levels of perceived discrimination among minority groups have serious implications for the region. Perceptions of discrimination and sentiments of fear for even if inaccurate is real forces that affect where people choose to live and conduct their daily lives. Perceptions of racial discrimination can affect the decisions of talented minorities within the region to stay or to leave; perceptions can also travel and affect the decisions of minorities outside the region to settle in the area. Such decisions have important social and economic consequences for a state that is currently losing population.
I think that African American Students and Hispanic is suggests that perceptions of discrimination lead to higher levels of psychological stress and negative emotional outcomes. My beliefs among minority groups that racial discrimination is a persistent phenomenon can therefore add to the public health costs of the region. In my addition, social trust and positive civic interactions among majority and minority communities are likely to diminish when large numbers of minorities believe that they cannot gain full social acceptance or access to a full range of economic opportunities, even if they work hard and achieve middle class status. Inter-group tensions only worsen when Whites do not recognize the serious social and economic barriers that minority group’s face, and when they do little to remedy the broader social conditions and specific behaviors that underlie minorities’ claims of unequal treatment. They must take significant steps to end the racial isolation that underlies interracial ignorance, misunderstanding, and fear. Policy measures the region should take include rigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws in employment and housing; increased recruitment of racial minorities in all segments of the workforce; and renewed commitment to increasing affordable housing and minority access to housing across the entire region. Educators and civic leaders should maintain efforts within public schools to help young people of diverse backgrounds come together to learn to understand each other and function harmoniously within a shared community. There should be sustained efforts through community and faith-based organizations to promote inter-group conversation and interracial acceptance.
Finally, I came to the conclusion that they have an ongoing responsibility to report on the deep racial inequalities that exist in the region, and to help the public understand and discuss the broader social contexts that contribute to these inequalities. As the region continues to grow more racially and ethnically diverse, and as the White population continues to shrink, the future social, economic, and civic health of the region depend on the ability of all the people in Metro Boston to live and work alongside each other with interracial understanding and trust. Within a rapidly changing Metro Boston population, ignorance of persistent minority disadvantage across the region and passive acceptance of its multiple social causes may only heighten racial polarization.
I have seen many minorities treated horribly, especially living in Aspen as I do now. We recently had a **** threat against a predominately minority construction site threating to "**** all the Mexicans". As a Mexican- American myself I take offense when people say rude things to anyone considered different. I believe that together, we can make a difference and finally allow minorities to not be referred to in derogatory terms.
The Hispanic community and the Black community share many of the same stereotypes; "drug dealers, gang bangers, uneducated, and my personally most despised "the mexican who cleaned my room/ fixed my sink does not speak English what a ****". There are however, many of us who do not fit these stereotypes and by working together, whether it be by protesting, joining clubs, or next time you hear someone referred to in a derogatory way saying simple "that was really rude you don't know that person and don't have the right to call them (insert term here)". By working together to get our messages heard and to get help to not just people of minorites, but to all people we can make changes to our benefit. By working together we can get better healthcare, and better living situations for people who need it.
The poverty level in our country is rising and majority of the people affected are minorities. These people deserve the help of the federal government, which they are not getting. Because of poverty, educating people in these areas is difficult, and the school systems have high dropout rates. But by motivating our minority students and helping them attend college and pay for an education, we can let them know that they do not have to drop out and work a minimum wage job, they are smarter than that.
My cousin got in trouble multiple times in high school and dropped out. My big extended Mexican family pushed him and motivated him. He went back to school and graduated and is now going to community college. If we think of the idea of my family on a larger scale we can push people and help them achieve more than they thought possible. Making education an affordable possibility to minorities can help raise communities out of poverty and keep future "gang bangers and drug dealers" off the streets, universities and colleges can do this and help. The mindset of the minority population can help. We can come together to become a great and influential part of this nation.
African Americans and Hispanics in America should most defiantly work together when it comes to issues such as politics, culture, communication, and community issues because together we could possibly make a big enough impact in not only America, but in our world as well. It would be tremendous to see African and Hispanic Americans work together to make the future brighter and inspire others in the process. There are so many important issues that we as people need to be addressing and instead of waiting for officials to make pointless decisions, we as minorities should combine and take the world by storm. Politics are one of the most important issues that I think African and Hispanic Americans need to address immediately because we living lifestyles that are put into the hands of voted officials. One thing that I’ve learned throughout my life was that no one could ever tell my story like I could. For example, there are so many African and Hispanic families that are struggling everyday to survive life, but they are never really given the opportunity to actually tell what they go though everyday. Yes, we do hear about what’s going on in our communities through the local news, but we are not hearing these stories through the people who suffer or from people who have to live in fear and wonder where there next meal is going to come from. African and Hispanic Americans need to join forces and we need to tell our own life stories because we can tell it better like no one. We all need to bring attention to the problems that we face everyday and tell what is really going on behind closed doors. I know that if African and Hispanic Americans created a strong enough unity, we would accomplish so much and finally be able to speak on what’s not covered or ignored in the media. Instead of turning the channel to the local news and being exposed to “American Idol” recaps, we all need to be educated on what goes on in our communities today and come up with ways to make change. In order to strengthen the relationship between the African and Hispanic communities living within the United States, I think there should be a lot more influence and interaction between both cultures. There are a million ways to strengthen the relationship between both cultures. For example, when planning events such as festivals, celebrations, meetings or social gatherings, welcome both African and Hispanic Americans; Create a national holiday made specifically for African and Hispanic Americans; Plan after-school programs for African and Hispanic American children so they can learn to unite with each other while still having fun; Encourage schools to offer African and Hispanic American clubs & organizations; Use college students as spokespeople to publicly speak on how African & Hispanic unity would be beneficial for us all. The List could go on forever and it is up to us to make this dream reality. In order to create a African and Hispanic relationship, we need to also spread the word so that it will encourage more and more people to get involved. If the world does not know about our presence, how will we ever be heard in our government, communities and country as a whole. We need to first establish unity among ourselves and once we establish our own power, the next step would be to promote, market, network, persuade and inform everyone that this is something important and that it would be a wonderful attribute for America pursue.Historically Black College & Universities can support the needs of African American students and possibly the needs of the growing Hispanic population by simply encouraging and promoting as much as possible. The only way that we will not be heard or not be able to support our people as if all the HBCU stop doing there jobs. Anything is possible if we continue to be focused, work hard and prove that we are worthy of our purpose, presence and time. Why should Black Colleges & Universities continue to support the needs of African Americans and possibly the needs of Hispanic Americans? Because it should be a top priority for us to continue to look out for our people and it is also important to continue to promote education among our people of color. As minorities, we need people who we can trust, people who can help us when we are in need, people who will have our backs, people who will guide us to many opportunities….people who will give us a chance to prove that we are intelligent individuals trying to survive, help make a difference in America and possibly throughout the entire world. HBCU need to continue to give support so that we can finally get rid of having to come up with the ideas of “possibly giving support to Hispanic Americans”. Let us all continue to grow and do the best job possible so that we are able to finally say that we CAN give support to both African and Hispanic Americans in America.
The United States is commonly known as the "melting pot." But if this is known, why is there still much differentiation between the people. Isn't everyone the same despite the color, shape, or size of a person? We, as Hispanics and African Americans, should show the world how much we are needed in our community.African Americans and Hispanics should work together to adress different issues because we have just as much right as anyone else does. We all have so many ideas that can change the world, but how can it be changed if no one speaks out. With the experience and background that we have, we can better our country by adressing issues like political, cultural, communication, and community issues. We know what goes on in our country, and it's up to us to make a difference.If we, Hispanics and African Americans, get together and strengthen our relationship, we can live better. We mostly agree on the same things, and we have gone through so much from so many people. We have had the same experiences. Discussing these with each other and helping one another out could strengthen, and tighten, our relationship.Historicallly Black College and Universities could help out the African American students and also Hispanic students by giving us the support we need. The colleges and universities can make specific scholarships and awards to those that need it the most like the Hispanics and African Americans. It gives us that opportunity we need to succeed in life by having a better chance at going to college. We have to show the world that we're not just anybody: we're SOMEBODY.
