ONCE AGAIN ... THERE ARE THOSE WHO REFUSE TO SEE THE INEQUALITY OF THE USA ... WHICH IS NOW WORSE THAN APARTHEID, SOUTH AFRICA WAS. The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. (Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times. ... Nicholas Kristof points out that white Americans do not want to hear about this problem. They think the story of INEQUALITY and RACE is getting more attention than it deserves... MANY white Americans say they are fed up with the coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. A plurality of whites in a recent Pew survey said that the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves ... slog.thestranger/slog/archives/2014/09/02/20486508-the-wealth-inequality-between-white-and-black-households-in-the-us-surpasses-the-one-in-aparthied-era-south-africa
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:08:04 +0000
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