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Posted by Charles G on Thu Apr 21 18:11:55 2005, in response to A honest cultural question..., posted by brooklynQB on Thu Apr 21 17:01:22 2005. Well, I'm not a fellow Black American but I'll throw my 2 cents in anyway (after all, this is SubChat -- when does anyone ever play by the rules?)I that you've either mis-interpreted the article or that the author needs to check his facts. There is no statistic (mean, median or mode) for which black earnings are 1/10th that of whites. Generally speaking, per capita income for blacks is usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-70% of that for whites. Much of that difference comes from differences in education levels. When you correct for education levels, the difference narrows but is definitely not eliminated. I can't remember exactly where, but I think I actually read recently that -- once you correct for education levels earnings for black females and white females are nearly equal. The remaining difference is explainable by an interaction of many factors -- some of which you listed and some not (the rate of black male incarceration is a huge factor in creating permanent income differences). Most studies that claim to have found answers beyond education level usually have an easily detectable bias (in any direction) that makes their conclusion somewhat questionable. I expect that the answers you get here will run the gamut -- some will claim racism is the reason. Others will claim that Blacks hold themselves down. And you'll hear everything else in between. I don't think there are any right or wrong answers because it's a little bit of a lot of things. CG |
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