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To: Tell It Right

Libs whine because the salary gap between college degreed whites and blacks hasn’t closed and state it due to racism. Could the reason be it’s because blacks pursue degrees in the soft sciences; the ones that basically have zero value?


11 posted on 08/10/2021 6:50:54 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: snoringbear
"Could the reason be it’s because blacks pursue degrees in the soft sciences; the ones that basically have zero value?"

There's that. Then there's a whole host of other factors.

The Libs are always keen to state "household incomes" way more often than "individual incomes". You're supposed to forget that waaaayyy more black households than white households have one parent incomes.

There's also the "raising a family" income comparisons. You're supposed to forget that for whatever reason the average age for making babies among blacks is younger than with whites. Obviously a toddler raised in a household with parents who are 20 years old isn't liable to be in as wealthy a household as a toddler who's parents are 27.

Another factor virtually nobody else knows is average age in general. Let's say you have two people who are the same in every way such as career choice, whether or not they're married while raising kids, the age they started raising kids, etc. If the only thing I told you that was different is that one is black and the other is white, the odds are that the black person is way younger (I read the average age is 20 something) than the white person (average age 50 something). Basically, I'm a 50 something year old software engineer who makes way more money than I did when I was in my 20's as a junior programmer --- much like almost everybody else does in whatever career they go into. So just the age demographics alone make it tough for blacks to "compete" with whites -- and it'd be unrealistic to expect employers to pay them as much (on aggregate) given their relative lack of experience. No one says 20 year old apprentice welders should be paid as much as welders with decades of experience. That'd be unrealistic. Now that you know the average age of blacks is way lower than whites you see how unrealistic it is to expect blacks on average to make the same as whites even within the same occupations.

45 posted on 08/10/2021 7:55:49 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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