Ultimately, this adolescent is 5.6 times more likely to drop out of school and less likely to attend a four-year college than a White adolescent. By fourth grade, this child is four times less likely to read at grade level and is likely to live in a neighborhood with twice the concentration of liquor stores and more fast food outlets. As a toddler, this child is 2.5 times more likely to be behind in vaccinations. “Compared with a White child in the Oakland Hills, an African American born in West Oakland is 1.5 times more likely to be born premature or low birth weight, seven times more likely to be born into poverty, twice as likely to live in a home that is rented, and four times more likely to have parents with only a high school education or less. The work of righting the wrongs of slavery is not yet done. But systemic forms of discrimination, such as police brutality and substandard schools in minority neighborhoods, continue with powerful negative effects. King gave this speech, some overt forms of racial discrimination in the United States have lessened. Website Editor’s comment: Why should we listen to this speech today? In the fifty years since Dr.
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