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As an interesting aside, a recent economic report concerning income levels for various ethnicities in America was trumpeted with the headline "Blacks and Other Minorities Still Trail Whites in Income".

After a laundry list of per capita income among blacks, hispanics, Native American, Pacific Islander, etc. came the kicker - Asians in America are well ahead of all ethnic groups in income. Yet the thrust of the article was to imply that the American economy was so rigged by whitey that 'White Priviledge' was a dominant factor.

The article gave no indication as to what were the causes behind Asian affluence or how they managed to use the American economy to get to the top of the heap.

I just thought that was interesting. Racialism as a corallary to liberism is alive and well.

Yet the thrust of the article was to imply that the American economy was so rigged by whitey that 'White Priviledge' was a dominant factor.

You'll find when you really talk to these people, what they really mean about all this is "Our system is inherently racist because the free market favors the white anglo-saxon protestant ethic, therefore, capitalism must go." In other words, this is the same old Marxism under a new title.

The article gave no indication as to what were the causes behind Asian affluence or how they managed to use the American economy to get to the top of the heap.

The few Asians I know around this litle burg work 12-14 hour days 6 and 7 days a week in their family owned and operated businesses. Do you suppose that maybe, just maybe, that has something to do with their success and prosperity?

I also know, or I should say have known, some black Americans who work long and hard, some in their own businesses and some in other's. Most of them live better than I do, and deservedly so. The one thing that characterizes all of them is that they are getting on with their lives, in spite of the discrimination they have probably encountered at some point, instead of continually whining about the "unfairness" of the society they live in.

Incidentally, whining about the unfairness of life isn't confined to any one racial group. I have known many whites (most of whom just "happened" to be labor union members and Democrats) who have made it into an art form.