On the top of the list, and nuking the average median household income of everyone, are Indian-Americans. This subsection of the population boasts a median household income of $123,453. Second place isn’t even close, with just $102,328 going to Taiwanese-American households. Filipino-Americans are third with $92,328.
Sure, there are Australian-Americans and South African-Americans near the top, but doesn’t that even help disprove the notion of systemic racism here? American-Americans created this whole racist and inherently biased mess, and they barely earn half of what those foreign whites do. Some system they manipulated for themselves, right?
Ghanaian-Americans out-earn their white American peers with $66,571. Although not ahead of whites, not too far behind them either are Nigerian-Americans with $60,732 of median household income. Haitian-Americans, who come from a country that is repeatedly identified as one of the poorest countries in the entire Western Hemisphere and where 80% of its population lives in poverty, manages to earn a respectable $47,990. That’s one spot higher than the white English-Americans. That’s also 24 times higher than the median household income in their native land.
Astonishingly, despite other black populations thriving compared to their white neighbors, African-Americans earn just $33,500. Out of 98 ranked population groups, the only hyphenated nationalities below them are Iraqis, Dominicans, and Somalis. It is this figure that gets touted as proof that America was built on racism, is racist, and always be racist unless we fundamentally transform it.
Of course, the question should not be “Why do African-Americans earn so little” because we already know the answer. Fatherless homes, black urban culture that prioritizes vulgar music (which celebrates the abuse of drugs, alcohol, and women), sports, abysmal education statistics like reading skills and high school graduation, and the acceptance of a victimhood narrative all play a role in the population.
Once the question of “Why do black immigrants do so well?” becomes standard and we can again focus on positive traits such as hard work, no excuses, and prioritizing educational outcomes (African students comprise 40% of black Ivy League students), then the nation can begin tackling real issues.
The immigrants form Sub saharan Africa are the upper class creme de la creme and were going to do well in Africa anyway.. We are brain draining the 3rd world and putting our own IT workers and STEM worker in direct competition with the world. It is a downward wage spiral. Sucks to be an American STEM worker.
The United States Census has race and ethnicity as defined by the Office of Management and Budget in 1997.[1] The following median household income data are retrieved from American Community Survey 2018 1-year estimates. In this survey, the nationwide population was 327,167,439 and the median household income was US$ 61,937 in 2018.[2]
| Race and Ethnicity | Alone | Alone or in Combination with Other Races | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | ||
| White Americans | 002 | 236,173,020 | 65,902 | 003 | 245,860,228 | 65,777 | [3] |
| Black or African American | 004 | 41,617,764 | 41,511 | 005 | 46,261,485 | 41,911 | [4] |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 006 | 2,801,587 | 44,772 | 009 | 5,710,410 | 48,370 | [5] |
| Asian Americans | 012 | 18,415,198 | 87,243 | 031 | 22,137,269 | 85,897 | [6] |
| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 050 | 626,054 | 61,911 | 060 | 1,468,239 | 64,865 | [7] |
| Some other race | 070 | 16,253,785 | 48,983 | 071 | 18,146,776 | 49,805 | [8] |
| Hispanic or Latino (of any race) | — | — | — | 400 | 59,763,631 | 51,404 | [9] |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | — | — | — | 450 | 267,403,808 | 64,025 | [9] |
Statistics and damn statistics.
Particularly “Native American” statistics, with “average” six figure “household” income lumps “household” income from “tribal” groups with casino operations or solid natural resource developments with many Native Americans on the poorest reservations.
Everything is relative and it is the individual that matters most, not the group.
In every group there are those that beat the “averages” as well as those below the averages, even the averages for their “group”. That is no less true for “blacks” than any other “group”.
We have to quit talking about such “groups” with rates of interracial/inter-ethnic marriages now about 15% of the population and growing.
The Left and Democrats have profited politically from destruction of the American black family, and their political inculcation of anger and victimhood. Their gain has been the economic and social loss of traditional American blacks.
When blacks overwhelmingly drop of out school and do poorly in school you cannot compare them to other demographics that stay in school and do better in school.
The few Ethiopian immigrants whom I’ve met are grateful and here to kick ass for themselves. One new Kenyan friend I have, came here to Colorado and started a small African restaurant micro-chain that’s amazing, called the African Grille. Good to see certain folks crush it while too many native born just wither and take.
Problem is-regression to the mean. And we get to inherit that.
The author makes some assumptions I’ll question. South Africans could very well be white. Iranians and Lebanese could be Christians. His overall point that hard work, education, and lifestyle create economic success are valid. The article also points out the American blacks are thorough LOSERS. That’s what happens after decades of Democratic mayors, governors, and some Presidents combined with family-undermining government handouts.
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.