Throughout
Martin Luther King’s Chaos or Community, King
presents prominent facts from information based on the civil rights. King explains
how infant mortality among African-Americans was twice as much than white people.
Black grammar schools, in comparison to white schools, were lacking up to three
years of education. This was the same percentage that fought in Vietnam, and that 1/20 African-Americans
went to college as white Americans. After utilizing the data from the research
on infant mortality, King discovered that 50% of white Americans didn’t want Negros
as neighbors. This data suggests that African-Americans were guinea pigs from
less privileged backgrounds. Young African-Americans would die from hunger and
nourishment more over than whites. Infant mortality for African-Americans did
not concern white America, unless it was the about the births of white people.
Even though infant mortality is not as bold as it was in 1967, it still plays a minor role. In modern day 2012, the rate for white infant births is now the minority. As stated in the
New York Times article, "Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.,"
“A more diverse young population forms the basis of a generational divide with
the country’s elderly, a group that is largely white and grew up in a world
that was too.” This statement is interesting in how it contrasted to back then,
the birth rate for white infants is steadily decreasing. The data is similar in
how America is still struggling on matters such as education and jobs when it
deals with race. The fact that America hasn’t changed with racial tension over the
rate of white births, exemplifies how much development lies ahead. Even though
there are improvements to be made, there are many like Dowell Myers, felt that
America would decline if the people relied solely on white births.
