New Report Details Black Inequality

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hough income and education gaps between black and white Americans have narrowed significantly, black households still have barely one-tenth the net worth of white households, according to a new National Urban League report.

Middle class blacks' tenuous hold on prosperity reflects racial discrimination in housing and other wealth-building arenas — both historically and now — and suggests that today's civil rights battles are largely economic, said Marc H. Morial, Urban League president.

"Since the 1960s, one of the success stories is the growth of the African-American middle class — those who are college-educated, participating throughout the American economy and growing in stature and influence," Morial said. "But what we face is that these successes of 40 years are being eroded. The danger is the great backslide that can occur."

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[TahitiNut]

1. Income Inequality is a Hallmark of Oppression

As I've noted before, the Gini Ratio is a very useful indicator of economic oppression. It also highlights the far greater importance of economic classism and "Class Warfare" when compared to the mere strategies of racism and bigotry. The chart below is an apt portrayal of why Clinton was euphemistically regarded as "the forst black president" but continues to depict the rationale for viewing income inequity as the most relevant indicator of oppression.

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2. Interesting. Y-axis should be upside-down. It's a downer.

Seems to indicate an increase at first glance. It's a decrease of voter worthiness.

A clear trend starting in the sixties. Interesting.

[TahitiNut]

3. If 'up' is good and 'down' is bad, then it should be inverted.

Doing so would make it incompatible with other depictions of the same data, however. I hesitate to create such dissonance where the majority are unfamiliar with the Gini coefficient in the first place.

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4. Understood: Consistancy before quick intent.

I just yearn for pride in my country, and so want to see upswing after upswing. Instead, I'm ...Bushwhacked again.

Seems to correlate with the rise of CONservativism. Perhaps they think it's goooood.