Posted on 08/30/2014 5:29:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MANY white Americans say they are fed up with the coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. A plurality of whites in a recent Pew survey said that the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves.
Bill OReilly of Fox News reflected that weariness, saying: All you hear is grievance, grievance, grievance, money, money, money.
Indeed, a 2011 study by scholars at Harvard and Tufts found that whites, on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism.
Yes, you read that right!
So let me push back at what I see as smug white delusion. Here are a few reasons race relations deserve more attention, not less:
The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. (Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.)
The black-white income gap is roughly 40 percent greater today than it was in 1967.
A black boy born today in the United States has a life expectancy five years shorter than that of a white boy.
Black students are significantly less likely to attend schools offering advanced math and science courses than white students. They are three times as likely to be suspended and expelled, setting them up for educational failure....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Culture incentives work ... that's the horror. You're right kearnyirish - liberal elite dependency filth is hitting young whites and in a few generations it'll take down Asian kids... Their families are strong enough to hold out longer. These are sad times for the country.
True. And some of those Asian kids went from 'failed ghetto schools' to the tops of their college graduating classes. Also Asians make more than whites... I suspect it's NOT the color of their skin that's giving them the edge... they're making better choices.
My experience as well and you perfectly described the situation. You must have been working with a better selection than I as the primary source of off the books income for the people I was working with was drug dealing, prostitution and robbery.
It was Iowa, so...
Maybe these hard economic times will cause some reflection of priorities; now young whites can’t afford many of the products pedaled on TV, and they may learn some personal finance lessons from the experience. I suspect a lot of businesses that existed on the disposable income of young people are suffering...
Mostly Oakland on my end
Apparently, the author has taken up residence in Fantasyland.
“...not....billions....trillions...”
I guess it depends on the time frame... let’s say I was thinking per month...
If you want to think about total, including the future, it isn’t just property they’re taking, it’s lives. They are disgenically removing us from the population.
No Nickie it’s Blacks who just “get it.” We’ve given them a lifestyle that is better than the average working self sufficient person around the world and they proved with Ferguson that it is not enough and it will never be enough. This Shiite ends now. Let them find jobs and work like everybody used to before their president came to office.
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