US Government is Powerless Against Racism

According to the BBC...

George Floyd: How far have African Americans come since the 1960s?
By Jake Horton  --  BBC Reality Check  --  Published25 September 2020

It is 57 years this August since civil rights leader Martin Luther King led the March on Washington to demand racial justice.

So how much progress have black people in the US made since the 1960s? We've looked at six measures.

FAMILY WEALTH

• In 2016, the latest data available, the average wealth of a white family was almost seven times more than a black family in the US.
• The black-white wealth gap was larger in 2016 than it was in 1983, when black family wealth data was first collected.

POVERTY

• Although the wealth disparity remains significant, African Americans have become more economically well off since the 1960s.
• According to the latest data, as of 2019 a smaller proportion live in poverty than ever before.

COLLEGE

• This is another area in which progress has been made since the 1960s.
• More African Americans had completed four years of higher education by 2019 than ever before - 26% compared with just 4% in 1962.

JOBS

• The African-American unemployment rate reached a record low of 5.5% in September last year - but it has spiked sharply because of the huge impact of the coronavirus crisis on the US economy.
• Before this, the white unemployment rate had consistently been about half of the black unemployment rate since records began, in the 1970s.

WAGES

• There hasn't been much movement in the disparity between the wages of black and white Americans either.
• The average income of black households is just over 60% that of white households, with this disparity barely changing over the past 50 years

NOTE:  There has been 11 Presidents in the WHITE HOUSE since the SIXTIES and NONE OF THEM have done hardly anything to IMPROVE RACISM or to put BLACKS in a better position here in America...  

WHY CAN'T OUR GOVERNMENT CHANGE ANYTHING???

ARE THE WHITE AMERICANS THAT POWERFUL???