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People Giving Blood to Pay for Gas

According to MyFox Cleveland News, business at the ZLB Plasma Service on Cleveland's near west side is booming. The company pays as much as $40 per visit for a donors first four visits, less after that. Each person donating plasma can do that no more than two times a week.

The waiting area is packed with people like Geanie Fox and her boyfriend. "I come here twice a week and I have to, because its like the only place we can get money quickly, for gas." said Fox.

ZLB's parent company tells Fox 8 News donations are up, attributing the increase to what they call the economic downturn.

While many of the donors are regulars, Tialiegh Henry says she just started donating plasma last week, because of what the price of gas has done to her family's budget. "That was my reason for doing it." said Henry, "I just needed the money to fill up my gas tank."

She is far from alone. "If you are out of money and you need gas you can come here and get a little change." said Willie Tyson of Cleveland, who also says the stipend he gets from his donation does not go very far. "I mean it takes all of it at $4.50 a gallon almost."

The increase in donation is a plus for ZLB. The parent company calls it a win-win. Donors get some money in return for their plasma and their time, the company is able to profit from the donation, which can be used for life saving therapy.

Statistics on the State of Racial Inequality (Part 1)

• Percentage of all white children in the United States who are being raised in married-couple families: 75%

• Percentage of all black children in the United States who are being raised in married-couple families: 34%(U.S. Census Bureau)

• Percentage of all white children in the United States who are being raised in female, single-parent homes: 16%

• Percentage of all black children in the United States who are being raised in female, single-parent homes: 50%(U.S. Census Bureau)

• Percentage of all white children in the United States who are being raised by their grandparents: 1.4%

• Percentage of all black children in the United States who are being raised by their grandparents: 5.4%(U.S. Census Bureau)

• Median income of college-educated white women who worked full-time in 2005: $43,110

• Median income of college-educated African-American women who worked full-time in 2005: $45,273(U.S. Census Bureau)

• The median income in 2005 of black men who are high school graduates but have never been to college: $21,241

• The median income in 2005 of black men who have graduated from college: $43,496 (U.S. Census Bureau)

• The median income in 2005 of black women who are high school graduates but have never been to college: $15,768

• The median income in 2005 of black women who have graduated from college: $40,784 (U.S. Census Bureau)

• Black percentage of all public school students in the United States: 16.9%

• Black percentage of all students in the 100 largest school districts in the United States: 27.9%(U.S. Department of Education)

• Black percentage of all public school students in New Orleans: 93.5%

• Black percentage of all public school students in Detroit: 90.5%

• Black percentage of all public school students in Baltimore: 88.8% (U.S. Department of Education)

• Percentage of white adults ages 25 to 29 in 2007 who held a bachelor’s degree: 35.5%

• Percentage of black adults ages 25 to 29 in 2007 who held a bachelor’s degree: 19.5% (U.S. Department of Education)

• Percentage of the total white population ages 3 to 34 in 2006 who were enrolled in school: 56.8%

• Percentage of the total black population ages 3 to 34 in 2006 who were enrolled in school: 58.3%(U.S. Department of Education)

• Number of African Americans alive today who hold a professional degree: 164,000

• Number of African Americans alive today who hold a doctoral degree: 111,000 (U.S. Department of Education)

• Average number of hours per week that white children under the age of 6 are not under the care of one of their parents: 27.1

• Average number of hours per week that African-American children under the age of 6 are not under the care of one of their parents: 35.9 (U.S. Department of Education)

• Percentage of all white students in U.S. K-12 education in 2004 who were identified as “gifted”: 7.9%

• Percentage of all black students in U.S. K-12 education in 2004 who were identified as “gifted”: 3.5%(U.S. Department of Education)

• Percentage of all white students in K-12 education in Georgia in 2004 who were identified as “gifted”: 13.6%

• Percentage of all black students in K-12 education in Georgia in 2004 who were identified as “gifted”: 3.7%(U.S. Department of Education)

• Percentage of all white Americans ages 18 to 24 in 2006 who were enrolled in higher education: 41.0%

• Percentage of all black Americans ages 18 to 24 in 2006 who were enrolled in higher education: 32.6%(U.S. Department of Education)

• Percentage of all African-American high school graduates ages 18 to 24 in 1986 who were enrolled in higher education: 28.6%

• Percentage of all African-American high school graduates ages 18 to 24 in 2006 who were enrolled in higher education: 42.0% (U.S. Department of Education)

• Number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to men in 2006 at the nation’s historically black colleges and universities: 10,364

• Number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to women in 2006 at the nation’s historically black colleges and universities: 20,184(U.S. Department of Education)

• Number of white full professors at colleges and universities in the United States in 2005: 145,936

• Number of black full professors at U.S. colleges and universities in 2005 who were men: 3,498

• Number of black full professors at U.S. colleges and universities in 2005 who were women: 1,986 (U.S. Department of Education)

Quote Reflection #4: Charles Hamilton Houston (1895 - 1950)

"Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost" - Charles Hamilton Houston



Who was this man? Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895–April 22, 1950) was an African American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and helped train future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. He was educated at Amherst College, where he was valedictorian, and at Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude and was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow."[1], he played a role in nearly every civil rights case before the Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Houston's plan to attack and defeat Jim Crow segregation by using the inequality of the "separate but equal" doctrine (from the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision) as it pertained to public education in the United States was the masterstroke that brought about the landmark Brown decision.

Need I really say more? Education is the key. Each one, teach one.

In the past, there was a sense of community. Now, there seems to be a strong sense of divisiveness and lack of passion regarding educating our wayward youth.

United we stand, divided we fall.

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Footage you were never supposed to see...

Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption.

The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/43.html