Posted on 09/17/2020 7:18:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 2018, the median income for white households was $65,777. This is substantially higher than the worldwide median household income, which in 2013 was listed as hovering around just $10,000. Ask a conservative and they’ll point to this as evidence of how great and privileged it is to be an American. As anyone else and they’ll point to white privilege and systemic advantages.
No doubt, a median income of $65,000 affords a lot of opportunities. Even after accounting for taxes that siphon approximately 25% away from the principal, an average mortgage payment of $1,100 in 2020 and average monthly car payment of $350, there is still about $31,000 left for other expenses. It doesn’t offer a lavish lifestyle, but with proper budgeting and fiscal responsibility it’s not terrible either.
If there is even privilege to talk about trying to eke out a living with $65,000, that’s where the argument of inherent white benefits falls apart.
The extremes of the median household income chart tell a different, more complex story, than the simple yarn being spun by a despicable class of media and elite. If white skin were so important, why do those identifying as English-Americans come in at the 85th position on a list totaling just 98 ethnicities? Their median household income of $47,663. Moreover, their Scottish brethren to the north fare little better, garnering just $51,925 and placing 78th.
Where this data dive gets really interesting is that a group identifying as American-Americans, and who place just ahead of the Scottish-Americans at 77th on the list of median household incomes, earn just $51,601. They have both white and American privilege and can’t do better than Peruvian-Americans, who earn $52,000 annually as a household.
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Virtue signalers make me ill....
BOOM! EXACTLY! It was a pleasure to meet these young Ethiopian men, and made me see things that I had taken for granted at the time.
To be fair, I work directly with numerous African immigrant tech workers and while there are still sloths among them, the majority are some of the hardest working men and women I’ve ever met. They eschew the BLM garbage and feel like they have to work hard to make it in America. What a novel concept, right?
Yeah, nice try. It's your own insecurities and likely lack of achievement that make you ill.
Yep, I have friends from Nigeria, and they can’t stand American blacks.
Take Pakistanians and call center Indians out of the “Asian” category and it would shoot up dramatically.
Look at it like this: If immigrants coming in on work visas somehow RAISED prevailing wages then it would be impossible to get into the USA.
Look at you though
Resorting to your own stereotypes of whites in order to laid minorities
Let the enemy define you...that’s sure defeat in war
Blissfully ignorant you’re doing that
Only truth I see in this article is Africans outperform blacks here
He mentions Peruvians as high earners
That’s because many Peruvian immigrants are already doing well when they immigrate here
Same as Indians
As for Ethiopians ...the only ones I know a car parkers for Hertz here in Nashville .airport....no less anecdotal than your assertion
I do agree there are lazy whites.....everywhere in America
Fat....like squint eyed morbid obesity
On disability at 35
Pain pill script they sell
Food stamps
Several illegitimate kids usually mixed race ..no daddies
Not just “hillbillies” as you bemoan
The disconnect between the average virtue signalling GOPer and main street is strong in you.
“In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.”
“The police fatally shot 9 unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.”
What did we expectt would happen?
You are correct. It's not just hillbillies who struggle with English.
Let the enemy define you...that’s sure defeat in war
I'm not a hillbilly. I'm a Swamp Yankee, dammit!
I NEVER grossed more than $65,000 in my entire life, and I OWN my property-—all me vehicles-—and only have credit card debt.
I suspect your SAT test portion of critical thinking kept you out of college. You might want to babble less and actually make a point. Instead, you bore everybody.
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