First source shows the same ~2x disparity throughout until data ends in 1993.
So none of the government programs or equal opportunity has really changed that 2x dynamic.
I haven't researched this at all, but it seems like a plausible explanation for ghettoization is blacks not earning enough to keep up with inflation.
Inflation is like a treadmill that pushes everyone backward into poverty, the speed is 'set' so that the average person can't get ahead, so if a group is 'walking' too slow they're going to get thrown off the back.
Inflation or not, the welfare program really screw the blacks over. Having $11k (in 1993) is better and more productive than relying on food stamps and crack money.
Sure, like it could be the case that non-discrimination in hiring helped out blacks a lot and it was exactly countered by welfare holding them back.
The data would show a lot more upper class blacks since 1950s and also a lot more poor welfare blacks in relation to whites, and fewer in the middle, but I haven't looked that up.
It's just suspicious that the gap stays the same throughout all these big changes. It sounds like the gender gap in tech, where countries like Sweden tried everything they could to 'fix' the ratio but it turns out you can't make a horse drink.
First source shows the same ~2x disparity throughout until data ends in 1993.
So none of the government programs or equal opportunity has really changed that 2x dynamic.
I haven't researched this at all, but it seems like a plausible explanation for ghettoization is blacks not earning enough to keep up with inflation.
Inflation is like a treadmill that pushes everyone backward into poverty, the speed is 'set' so that the average person can't get ahead, so if a group is 'walking' too slow they're going to get thrown off the back.
Inflation or not, the welfare program really screw the blacks over. Having $11k (in 1993) is better and more productive than relying on food stamps and crack money.
Sure, like it could be the case that non-discrimination in hiring helped out blacks a lot and it was exactly countered by welfare holding them back.
The data would show a lot more upper class blacks since 1950s and also a lot more poor welfare blacks in relation to whites, and fewer in the middle, but I haven't looked that up.
It's just suspicious that the gap stays the same throughout all these big changes. It sounds like the gender gap in tech, where countries like Sweden tried everything they could to 'fix' the ratio but it turns out you can't make a horse drink.