From 2015-2019 black men rank second in bachelors degrees going from 19% to 23.7%

[Anerdyblackguy]

Originally from 2015
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf

*Black men in 2015 had a degree attainment of 19 percent.

2019
From the Department of Education in 2019
From the National Center of Education Statistics:

In 2019 23.7 percent of Black men over the age of 25 have a bachelors degree or higher

Source: Bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by sex of student and discipline division: 2016-17

Black men which at one point was last in Degree Attainment currently are third amongst all men

Ranking as of 2019

Asian Men: 60.1 (+4.8)
White men: 38.9 (+0.8)
Black men: 23.7 (+3.4)
Pacific Islander men: 22.6 (-2.0)
Hispanic men: 16.6 (+2.5)
Native American/Alaskan: 15.4 (+1.0)


Don’t let anybody tell you black men aren’t putting in work. We are Kings.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Bump

 

[thekingsmen]

 

[THE MACHINE]

I dropped out....but this is great to hear

 

[JackRoss]

Here's your pat on the back for doing what you are suppose to do and acting like it's an accomplishment like a real leader

 

[Ashley Banks]

My little brother is getting his bachelors degree this year. I’m so proud

 

[Samori Toure]

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

WE OUT HERE

 

[Big D Bangston]

Got mine last year, was hard as shyt though

the smile on the fams faces

big bro drove 13 hours (don’t ask why) to see it

 

[Gold]

look at God

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

My little brother is getting his bachelors degree this year. I’m so proud

Got mine last year, was hard as shyt though

the smile on the fams faces

big bro drove 13 hours (don’t ask why) to see it

Congratulations to you both.

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

African American High school dropout & teen pregnancy rates have been going down, with college enrollment going up for decades now.

While OP is certainly good news ...it's nothing new / surprising.​

What I'm concerned about is folks not neglecting trades. Otherwise you end up in situations like in Africa where you have the Chinese coming in to build shyt locals should be building and maintaining.
Remember education is the reproduction of a culture and culture is the means and ways in which a population secure their needs within a given environment.
Some of us are so far removed from that basic understanding of education because of being in poverty mode so long. As a result we think that you go to school to get a job so you can have money to spend on necessities so as to be lifted from poverty. Which sounds good until you remember that you can't buy those necessities if there is no structure in place to manufacture, transport, stock, sale, etc these items.

Luckily there is a good mix of those "blue collar" bruhs out here putting in work

Short of R&D, administration, governance, etc. alot of those things aren't done by a bunch of degree holders. We need those "blue collar" trades as well

This focus on trades is emphasized when you remember women typically don't do this kinda work

women choose to work in corporate and retail mostly while men are spread over the entire economy.

It is important to not get caught up in what other folks put out as an educational goal to be attained. It's on us to define that and I personally reject a reality with a bunch of black men in one segment of the economy to the point where we can't build and maintain infrastructure, field a military, etc. Especially if that reality came about cause outside media made you think university is the end all be all of success.
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"Remember education is the reproduction of a culture and culture is the means and ways in which a population secure their needs within a given environment" ...not the means by which you get money to stunt of nikkas and prove you better than/just as good as [insert demographic here]


And this is coming from a university guy finishing up(trying to anyway) senior year of software engineering. Those trades, military, farmers, ect. bruhs are deathly important

 

[Mastamimd]

Damn this makes me wanna go for my Masters

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Look. I hate to be that guy. But this stat, as good as it is, belongs to the 90s/early 2000s. The stat that we should be looking at is how many black people are creating businesses and hiring black people. And in what industries. Because if all these black folk are getting degrees only to make other people money, then at some point, one of us is gonna look up and say, "what's the point?".

 

[humminbird]

Look. I hate to be that guy. But this stat, as good as it is, belongs to the 90s/early 2000s. The stat that we should be looking at is how many black people are creating businesses and hiring black people. And in what industries. Because if all these black folk are getting degrees only to make other people money, then at some point, one of us is gonna look up and say, "what's the point?".