Yesterday the Pew Research Center released analysis based on new Fed data that shows that median black net worth is less than it was thirty years ago. Median net worth for whites has grown an average of about 1% over…
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Lies (or Stupidity), Damned Lies (or Stupidity), and Statistics
A family member who has a history of opposition to efforts to reduce racial discrimination emailed me an article by Paul Sperry entitled, “Eric Holder believes all cops are racists…” Sperry claims that Holder’s efforts to reduce unconscious racial bias have…
Is It Harder For Poor Illiterate White Guys Or Rich Black Harvard Law Graduates To Get Arrested?
Bobby Constantino wrote an amazing story about how hard it was to get arrested as an educated white guy wearing the uniform of the upper-class, a suit and tie. It is well worth reading. He is a hero for the…
Posted in Discrimination, Labor
Economics of Slavery
There is a little bit of research on slavery that is buried in the back of some inequality research by Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman (pdf) that just floors me. Check out this graph of the total wealth of different…
AP Fires Up Racial Divide
TV news reporter Ty Batemon interviewed me today for a WLIO segment in response to a recent AP article by Hope Yen that has the ridiculous, meaningless headline, “4 in 5 in USA face near-poverty, no work“. This is meaningless…
Posted in Discrimination, Labor
Slavery → Racism → Inequality of Opportunity
Last week I visited the National Archives and viewed the original copy of the US Constitution with my family. I was struck by how the original constitution only contained three explicit rights for individuals: they are freedoms from habeas corpus,…
Posted in Discrimination, Labor
Racism and The Achievement Gap
This summer, the entire Bluffton University faculty is reading a Ken Bain book as a focus for meetings about improving our teaching, and it has some sections that are relevant to the Bluffton civic engagement theme I mentioned in my…
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