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Article: The "blame whitey" media.
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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THE WASHINGTON POST marked Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Jan. 18, 1993, with a front-page article headlined "Few Blacks Reach Top in Private Sector, Census Finds." The story said that "recently released census figures document only a tiny African-American presence in prestigious jobs, most of them in the private sector: Blacks make up 10 percent of the nation's work force but only 4 percent of doctors, 3 percent of lawyers and architects and 2 percent of airline pilots." In the Washington, D.C., area, where they were said to make up 25% of the workforce, just 10% of doctors, eight percent of electrical engineers, and seven percent of attorneys were found to be black. ...