That was no typo: The median net worth of black Bostonians really is $8

The Boston Globe ^ | December 11, 2017 | Akilah Johnson, Globe Staff

[gitmo]

According to the article it’s due to borrowing more than you own. That includes credit card debt.

[NorthMountain]

“Bling” usually costs a lot but isn’t worth much.

[Salvey]

It’s that high?

[Salvey]

It’s that high?

[Theodore R.]

People in Boston are not the John and Samuel Adams types for sure.

[beergarden]

then why cant all white stupid liberals POOL their money and hand it over to the bruthas’? Yeah, they can show conservatives what meanies’ we are (s/)

[Mears]

Roxbury is very expensive now———that must be a very old song.

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[NEMDF]

What you said. Wealth comes from sacrificing or at least deciding that saving is more important than spending.

It could be suggested that, for those who see the rest of us as a Plan B to shore up their needs when they choose not to save for themselves, it is probably easier to spend everything.

[dfwgator]

1974.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My point still stands.

[SunkenCiv]

Leader Of Black Lives Matter Say Planet Of The Apes Is Racist Because It Mocks Him
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Posted on 07/13/2017 12:06:52 PM PDT by Morgana
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3568982/posts

[doorgunner69]

And dey hundreds of dollahs of tattoos.

[lgjhn23]

Sounds like everything is fine in this RATopia.

[Rurudyne]

A nation of folks that abuse credit, a government that abuses credit too ... go fig?

[gov_bean_ counter]

That is why I prefer Florsheim. Hold their value better.

[Political Junkie Too]

Deval Patrick's legacy?

-PJ

[dynachrome]

“non-immigrant African”

I wonder if legal immigrants do better?

[Grampa Dave]

Another city with democrat mayors/left wing mediots, city councils, democrat governors and congressits which has spent billions of $’s on LBJ’s War on Poverty.

Cities, where often the average black family is worse off financially now than before the War on Poverty!

[2harddrive]

That means half are worth LESS than $8. PITIFUL.

[Obadiah]

That is quite a return on their investment for living on the liberal plantation for all these decades. They should be really proud. Decades of Democrat rule and they got 8 bucks in the bank!