With me it is practically weightless.
The question I have is how many blacks can achieve a college education and make over 50k even with the greatest guilt-based attempt to give them both on a platter in the history of the world?
I believe fewer than could've achieved it without it being offered as a gift. Which would explain, to a degree why they come up short.
I am honest, and fully recognize the repeated and prolonged failures and don't adhere to the belief that races and cultures are intrinsically equal in particular abilities, but only in the eyes of their Creator. However, I firmly believe that all races and peoples are capable, in this country, of securing a college education and/or earning 50k/year, provided no one has convinced them they aren't capable and they are willing to put forth the neccessary effort. Sadly, certain cultures have been convinced that something or someone other than themselves and their own actions are holding them down.
The reason the people in New Orleans are so pathetic is because they are stupid; the vast majority of poor people are also quite stupid, that's why they are disproportionately poor.
You'll get no argument from me here other than to say other factors come into the equation. You can be brilliant, but if you're lazy you'll likely be poor; you can be stupid, but if you work really hard at something others value, you'll achieve financial success. Like John Wayne said, "Life is tough, life is tougher if you're stupid". I would add that if you stay in a coastal town that sits below sea-level with a cat-5 hurricane approaching, life is going to be tougher.
Blacks are about a full quintile behind other races, cognitively, and are subsequently poor as well.
While this may or may not be true, I would simply say that it is largly irrelevant as to the question of poverty; people are paid to produce, not to be cognitive.
Be well.