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13149721, Speaking of success: Black People Are Not All ‘Living in Hell’ (SWIPE)
Posted by Creole, Thu Apr-27-17 08:31 AM
Some of y'all got it. Stop faking like you ain't it in that bougie brunch crew. And go get the muddy PRPS jeans for $400+. You got it!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/opinion/black-people-are-not-all-living-in-hell.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
Thomas B. Edsall APRIL 27, 2017
Contrary to Donald Trump’s indiscriminate portrayal of African-Americans as “living in hell,” the black upper middle class is ascending the economic ladder at a faster rate than its white counterpart.
Scholars have begun to focus their attention on this phenomenon. William Julius Wilson, a sociologist at Harvard and the author of “The Truly Disadvantaged,” is working on a book about upward social mobility among African-Americans. In an email, he wrote me:
One of the most significant changes in recent decades is the remarkable gains in income among more affluent blacks. When we adjust for inflation to 2014 dollars, the percentage of black Americans earning at least $75,000 more than doubled from 1970 to 2014, to 21 percent. Those making $100,000 or more almost quadrupled to 13 percent (in contrast white Americans saw a less striking increase, from 11 to 26 percent).
Read more at the link... I ain't feel like copying/pasting the whole thing.
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13149723, Why a white dude have to tell us this though? Charles Blow to busy?
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Apr-27-17 08:33 AM
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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"
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13149728, Blow too busy eviscerating Ch(r)ump every chance he gets...
Posted by Creole, Thu Apr-27-17 08:41 AM
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13149733, yup.. problem is, they will still use this article against us
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Apr-27-17 08:47 AM
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13149762, yep. now racism AND poverty are over. everybody is doing great.
Posted by KiloMcG, Thu Apr-27-17 09:20 AM
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13149839, There's even a Black guy on the news. You guys are doing great !
Posted by Shogun, Thu Apr-27-17 10:51 AM
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13150120, And ALL the basketball players are black. It's black supremacy!
Posted by Atillah Moor, Thu Apr-27-17 04:34 PM
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13149757, come to Maryland. i'll take you to parts of PG County, Baltimore County,
Posted by BigJazz, Thu Apr-27-17 09:14 AM
and Charles County where the black upper middle class, as described in the OP, is alive and well.
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I ain't lyin. This shit i'm making up is true...
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13149766, Let's tell racist white America how well the black middle class is doing
Posted by Atillah Moor, Thu Apr-27-17 09:26 AM
can't be any harm in that
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13149859, lol
Posted by ambient1, Thu Apr-27-17 11:15 AM
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13149860, Lmao
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Apr-27-17 11:21 AM
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13149908, OMG LOL too funny
Posted by Damali, Thu Apr-27-17 12:36 PM
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13150084, Greenwood riots inTulsa, OK was the first thing I thought of
Posted by auragin_boi, Thu Apr-27-17 03:12 PM
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13150114, yeeeeeeah. I thought the same.
Posted by double negative, Thu Apr-27-17 04:28 PM
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13150148, Unless they work for gov.com.
Posted by Shaun Tha Don, Thu Apr-27-17 05:56 PM
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13149857, Oh how wonderful of an old white man to tell ME a
Posted by DJ007, Thu Apr-27-17 11:11 AM
Black man about myself.....AGAIN...smdh!!!!!
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"You can win with certainty with the spirit of "one cut". "Musashi Miyamoto
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13149885, But those gains are tenuous
Posted by Bluebear, Thu Apr-27-17 12:02 PM
there are also studies showing that upper middle class black folks constantly have to worry about losing everything because most of them have earned it themselves and don't have the safety net of generational wealth.
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13149935, nope, everything is fine. Black poverty is solved.
Posted by KiloMcG, Thu Apr-27-17 01:06 PM
you're just typing more excuses. just pull them bootstraps, fam! everything is fine now!
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13150136, more billionaires, millionaires, & hunnid thousandaires. but not enough unity
Posted by Riot, Thu Apr-27-17 05:31 PM
unity
hence the collective aint really budging
not to mention external economic forces that basically push stagnation, even for the other middle and working class communities
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13150150, Or ownership of enterprises that produce the very things they consume
Posted by Shaun Tha Don, Thu Apr-27-17 06:01 PM
as opposed to being mere employees of such.
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13150147, fodder for the 'bootstrap' contingency
Posted by infin8, Thu Apr-27-17 05:49 PM
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