Don't you know that statistics are just numbers? Blacks achieved these numbers in spite of the Reagan policies. His policies were only intended to help the white man. That others benefitted also has always been a sore point to the GOP.
reply by Ithaca, NY.
Yes,it was a boom time for the one third of so of Blacks who were in the middle and entrpeneurial class but the Eighties were also the decade that the traditional black family just about vanished from the hood!
Not that it was Reagan's fault by any stretch of the imagination but when crack came to the ghetto the consequences were disasterous.I saw literally DOZENS of blacks where I worked lose their jobs,families and self respect to the Crack Monster.
The Eighties were a time of horrid fear in urban America.The effects are still present but the GW Bush years are far better than the Reagan years vis a vis black people.
Riverman