Why are African-Americans angry?

88% of African-Americans in a 2013 Pew poll said that there was “a lot” (46%) or “some” (42%) discrimination against them.  Only 57% of whites agreed, and only 16% of whites said there is “a lot” of discrimination against African-Americans:

Black unemployment 13.4%

White unemployment 6.7%

College-educated African-Americans are also twice as likely to be unemployed as whites with the same level of education.

A quarter of Americans living in poverty Whites make up about 41% of the poor.  But f the distribution were proportional, whites would by 70-some percentage of the poor and African-Americans would be 13%.  African-Americans are disproportionately likely to be poor.

Average household net worth of whites: $110,000.

Average household net worth of African-Americans:  $5000

The wealth gap between white and African-American families tripled between 1980 and 2009, according to the Century Foundation

 Most death sentences (77%) are handed out for killing white people, even though African-Americans make up 50% of murder victims.

In case of conviction for murder, African-Americans are 38% more likely to be handed the death penalty than members of other racial groupings.

1 in every 15 African American men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men

Equality before the law is what the Constitution promises. But that same Constitution enshrines individualism and competition and therefore guarantees economic inequality.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/race_inequality_between_us_whites_african-americans_by_numbers_20141126