The statistics that follow appear in the book,The American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms (Chicago:Lushena,2002) .

1. EDUCATION DRUGS &
POVERTY
CRIME
HEALTH
HIV & AIDS
EMPLOYMENT HOUSING
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POVERTY
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HEALTH
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The statistics that follow appear in the
book, The American Directory of
Certified Uncle Toms
(Chicago:Lushena,2002) .
The American Directory of Certified
Uncle Toms is a well documented,
scholarly, and witty critique of the most
stridently "Eurocentric" elements of the
black community.

4. POVERTY
While constituting roughly 13% of the total
population, Black America represents nearly
30% of America's poor.
That compares with 11%, or 16 million,
whites, who live in poverty; and 27%, or 8
million, Latinos.
Black family income is just 60% of white
income and 43% of all Black children live
beneath the poverty

5. POVERTY
Black children today are much more likely
than whites to lack early pre-natal care, and
have single mothers or unemployed parents.
White Americans possess 12 times the
average net worth of Blacks.
70% of elderly Blacks have no financial
assets.

6. DRUGS & CRIME
For many Blacks, drug use (including alcohol)
amounts to self-medication for depression
rooted in hopelessness caused by white
racism.
This medical need is exploited by a corrupt
society hell-bent on criminalizing the Black
race.

7. DRUGS & CRIME
Blacks, who comprise only 13% of
the population and account for
about 13% of drug users, constitute
35% of all arrests for drug
possession.
55% of all convictions on those
charges, and 74% of all those
sentenced to prison for possession.

8. HIV & AIDS
There is strong evidence that AIDS is a
disease created by white bio-chemists
and deliberately released in Africa
through vaccination programs. Blacks
account for 30% of people with AIDS in
America.
54% of children under age 13 with AIDS
are Black. HIV/AIDS is the number 1 cause
of death for Blacks aged 25 to 44.

9. HEALTH
The state of Black health scores below every
other race in the U.S.
Every year 250,000 …are killed by the 10
biggest killers of Blacks of all ages: heart
disease, cancer, stroke, AIDS, accidents,
homicide, diabetes, pneumonia and
influenza, chronic pulmonary diseases such as
asthma and bronchitis, and infant mortality.

10. HEALTH
Blacks have a 60% higher diabetes-related
mortality than whites and suffer 30% higher
cardiovascular mortality, 25%higher cancer
mortality (including breast cancer).
Blacks with prostate cancer are 2-3 times
more likely to die than whites. African-
American men have the highest rate of
prostate cancer in the world. Blacks with lung
cancer were 24% more likely than whites to
die within 5 years.

11. HEALTH
Twenty-five percent of Blacks in
the U.S. have no health insurance.
The rates of syphilis and gonorrhea
are many times higher among
Black teens than white.
90% of Black women suffer
complications in pregnancy-a rate
3 times that of whites.

12. HOUSING
55% of Blacks live in the cities, while 70% of whites
live in the suburbs or rural areas. Los Angeles and
New York are ranked 2nd and 3rd behind Sao
Paulo, Brazil, in their homeless population, and
80% of America's homeless are Black.
60% of the total Black population in the U.S. lives
in communities with one or more uncontrolled
toxic waste sites. 43% of Blacks and 68% of whites
own their homes.

13. EMPLOYMENT
Black adult unemployment has remained twice as
high as white unemployment for more than 30
years; 3 times as high among young people.
Black women make 89% of what white women
make; Black men make 67% of what white men
make. 53% of Black men aged 25-34 are either
unemployed or earn too little to lift a family of 4
from poverty. 21% of Black high-school graduates
are unemployed, 10% of whites.

14. EDUCATION
69% of Black children cannot read in the 4th
grade, compared with 29% among white children.
Only 12% of Black high-school seniors are
"proficient" readers, while 54% have "below basic"
reading skills.
It is estimated that 40-44% of Blacks are
functionally illiterate. Black children are almost 3
times more likely than white children to be labeled
mentally retarded. Blacks are 2.5 times more likely
to be placed in remedial or low-track classes.

15. EDUCATION
Two-thirds of "minorities" in public school fail
to reach basic levels of national tests.
There continue to be marked disparities
between Black and white students in the
national SAT scores. 32% of all suspended
students are Black.
Black students are twice as likely as whites to
be suspended or expelled.