Provide a critical assessment of the following comparative general claim:"The answer to the question, 'How are blacks doing in America?' is 'Better than ever before.'"-Ronald Reagan, on the first national observation of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

What will be an ideal response?


In what way better? Income? (The median family income for black families was higher when Reagan made his comment than it was in 1968, the year Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It was also further behind the median family income for whites than in 1968.)

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What will be an ideal response?

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