Tell Me Something I Don't Know? Fewer Opportunities Seen For Minority Kids

Although since 71% of the respondants where White themselves...

Minority children have fewer opportunities than their white peers to gain access to high-quality health care, education, safe neighborhoods and adequate support from the communities where they live, according to a nationwide survey of professionals who work with young people.

Fifty-five percent of respondents viewed young white children as having good access to high-quality health care, while 41 percent said the same of Hispanic, Arab American and American Indian/Alaska Native children and 45 percent said the same for African-American and Asian-American/Pacific Islander children.

Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice

The ACLU just came out with a report saying how the U.S. isn't really doing all that it can in complying with a 1994 United Nations treaty in ending racial discrimination - and if you're a person of color in this country - you knew that was coming.

Here's a snippet from the report called Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice, which can be viewed by going to the ACLU's site:

Racial and ethnic discrimination and inequality remain ongoing and pervasive in the United States, and the U.S. government has not done enough to address these important problems. Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world many of America’s grave, persistent economic and social disparities, and their impact on African-American and other minority communities. U.S. policies and practices at the federal, state and local level continue to disproportionately burden the most vulnerable groups in society: racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants and non-citizens, low-wage workers, women, children, and the accused.