Black-White Inequality...Here Are The Facts (middle east, retire, state, income)

[green_mariner]

Even when adjusting for education level, Blacks still have a higher unemployment rate than Whites. Blacks with only a high school education have an unemployment rate on par with Whites who drop out of high school.

[HappyTexan]

Well then just lower the requirements to own a home and let everyone buy one.

Oh wait..we tried that already......

[Iamme73]

Originally Posted by LauraC

Inequality by race? Take a look at high school graduation rates by race to see what the income "inequality" problem is tied to:

"Nationwide, black students graduated at a rate of 69 percent; Hispanics graduated at 73 percent; whites graduated at a rate of 86 percent."

And here it is broken down by state:

State High School Graduation Rates By Race, Ethnicity

State with the highest percentage of black high school graduates: Texas 84%

State with the lowest percentage of black high school graduates: Minnesota 51%
Second lowest: Oregon 53%
Third lowest: Washington DC 58%

When just about half the black adult population in these 3 places don't even have a high school diploma, what do you expect as to their earning power?

Again you all persist in lying to yourselves. Black college grads on average esrn less than white college grads and have a much higher unemployment rate.

So no high school graduation rates don't explain systematic income and wealth inequality that exists at every level on average of family structure and level of education completed.


Again these people will when presented with over whelm into proof of racial discrimination fall into the well black people are broken and they are the cause of the inequality not racism. It never fails. No matter the facts people persist in promoting the racist narrative of the broken black race whose internal black racial problems is really the cause of everything.

[JoyfulHope]

Originally Posted by Iamme73

Again you all persist in lying to yourselves. Black college grads on average esrn less than white college grads and have a much higher unemployment rate.

So no high school graduation rates don't explain systematic income and wealth inequality that exists at every level on average of family structure and level of education completed.


Again these people will when presented with over whelm into proof of racial discrimination fall into the well black people are broken and they are the cause of the inequality not racism. It never fails. No matter the facts people persist in promoting the racist narrative of the broken black race whose internal black racial problems is really the cause of everything.

Yep, just ignore the fact that black college grads are much less likely to have an extensive network as whites upon graduating.

[JoyfulHope]

Originally Posted by MemoryMaker

Income-wise, there are definitely some places where blacks out-earn whites.

You wouldn't hear about it b/c people are only interested in black ppl screwing up, failing or lagging behind.

Queens, NY is one of them (population 2.2 million):
Queens County, NY Income and Careers
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/ny...anted=all&_r=0

A good amount of diverse suburban communities on neighboring Long Island (South Shore) follow the same pattern also:

Valley Stream:
Valley Stream, NY Income and Careers
//www.city-data.com/income/inco...-New-York.html

W.Babylon:
West Babylon, NY Income and Careers
//www.city-data.com/income/inco...-New-York.html

Baldwin:
Baldwin, NY Income and Careers
//www.city-data.com/income/inco...-New-York.html

Wheatley Heights:
Wheatley Heights, NY Income and Careers
//www.city-data.com/income/inco...-New-York.html

Freeport:
Freeport, NY Income and Careers
//www.city-data.com/income/inco...-New-York.html

Baldwin Harbor:
Baldwin Harbor, NY Income and Careers
//www.city-data.com/income/inco...-New-York.html

Elmont:
Elmont, NY Income and Careers
//www.city-data.com/income/inco...-New-York.html

Westbury:
Westbury, NY Income and Careers
//www.city-data.com/income/inco...-New-York.html

.... And several more

I know it doesn't represent the national picture, but there are definitely exceptions to the rule.

+1 rep

AMAZING!

[T-310]

Originally Posted by dorado0359

Very sad to say the lease, that so many white Americans are in serious denial and dismiss the fact that there are serious problems in the United States regarding discrimination in employment, housing, etc when it comes to the MAJORITY black people.

5 disturbing stats on black-white financial inequality - Aug. 21, 2014

People make choices in life.

Some minorities make choices to breed out of hand, demand welfare and sell drugs and be a stain on the rest of civilization.

So I call BS on the article.

[brownbagg]

I was working on this construction site. And they was one black worker in his early thirty s that had 19 children by 12 different girlfriends, he didnt support any of them, every Friday the state welfare would show up and take his whole paycheck , he claimed it was that or jail

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by brownbagg

I was working on this construction site. And they was one black worker in his early thirty s that had 19 children by 12 different girlfriends, he didnt support any of them, every Friday the state welfare would show up and take his whole paycheck , he claimed it was that or jail

1(One), out of how many Black men that you know? And what city do you live in?

[Iamme73]

Originally Posted by michiganmoon

You just admitted that you have a poor understanding of the world.

Most black children live in single parent homes, period.

CNN's Don Lemon says more than 72 percent of African-American births are out of wedlock | PolitiFact

72 Percent of African-American Children Are Raised in Single Parent Homes - Atlanta Blackstar



72% Of Black Kids Raised In Single Parent Household, 25 Percent In U.S. | News One

Roughly 1 in 4 American children of all races live in a single parent home, nearly 3 in 4 African-American children live in a single parent home.


Now that you know the facts, perhaps it will clear up your other misconceptions.


As I said, during the past 25 years, 2 parent black homes are closing the income gap, while blacks as a whole (1 parent homes primarily) are falling further behind. Wealth is about income and what you choose to do with it. Working blacks are also more likely to have a pension (not counted as wealth) and not a 401K (counted as wealth).

No reread what you wrote.

You wrote that most black people reside in single parent households. That's not the truth.

Right now about 46% of all black households are married couples.

54% of all black households are headed by single people, but not all of those households have children.

So no the majority of black households are not single parent.

And again single parent households can't explain why black people with4yr degrees or advanced degrees have twice the unemployment rate as white people with 4yr degrees.
Single parent households can't explain why black people with 4yr degrees onaverage earn less than similarly educated white people.

Single parent households can't explain why black business owners have far less access to capital.

Single black households can't explain anything about persistant across the board racial inequalities from housing to education to jobs.

Yet the racist narrative had to be that no these inequities exist becAuse blackpeople are the problem.

Again you are failing. You can't say something is closing an income gap without comparing apples to apples.

Again, in married couples what you see is a greater percentage of both spouses in black married couples working than in white married couples.

So that is not marriage closing the income gap. That's just comparing black people with two incomes with white families with one.

When an apples to apples comparison is made what is found is that at younger black married couples where both spouses are working and younger white married couples where both spouses are working the income gap is 80%, which is still a huge difference.

Try telling any white couple we are taking away $1 out of every $5 that they earn or try telling any couple they are going to earn 20% more in household income.

So no marriage doesn't eliminate the income gap and it's not even close.

Two parent households do not eliminate the income gap. The closest that it gets is one subset of black and white married couples where they are young and both spouses are working and that still is a huge 20% difference.

Now the wealth gap is much much larger then the income gap and in absolute terms is the largest when comparing the highest earning black families with white families.

My suggestion do a lot more reading about this subject, get beyond the racist narrative of black people collectively having racial failings and think.

[HappyTexan]

Whites are minorities in several states so it can't be White vs Black there.
It's Hispanic vs Black now.