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This five-page paper examines William Wilson's book The Truly Disadvantaged, and demonstrates why race has not been a good tool to address the problems of the financially disadvantaged. The paper also examines why Wilson considers affirmative action and other similar programs (race-based programs) as ineffective. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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was assumed that race and disadvantaged circumstances went together. Because of that assumption, President Lyndon Johnsons Great Society and War on Poverty focused mainly on the Black community as
a whole. Because of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s as well, affirmative action and additional anti-discriminatory policies also came into place in order to assist Blacks by
equaling or leveling the playing field. Get despite such programs, poverty continues to be rife among the inner-city ghettos, which have a
very high population of Black people. The question then comes to mind, with so many programs developed by the government and other interest groups to help Blacks rise above
poverty, why has the continued to be a growth and poverty-stricken minority populations? Author William Wilson noted his reasons in his 1987
book The Truly Disadvantaged. In that book, he indicated that such race-based programs including affirmative action tended to be very limited and ineffective. Overall, Wilson tends to blame class rather
than race as a reason why many African-Americans simply cant get ahead. For one thing, he notes that despite civil rights laws and increased opportunities for Blacks, the so-called Black
underclass continues to multiply in inner-city neighborhoods (White 28). For one thing, Wilson notes, the reason for the worsening plight of the
Black underclass involves the change in the economy; for one thing, there has been a decline in the number of well-paid industrial jobs available to low-skilled workers that typically reside
in the inner cities (White 28). This has, Wilson points out, a terrible impact on young black males who typically be qualified for these jobs -- and has led to
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