{"id":104000,"date":"2016-08-21T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104000"},"modified":"2016-08-21T09:33:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T17:33:12","slug":"nyt-affluent-and-black-and-still-trapped-by-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104000","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped by Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times<\/a>: “Why well-off black families end up living in poorer areas than white families with similar or even lower incomes.”<\/p>\n

Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Why life is just so very hard for wealthy, upwardly mobile blacks. They are still victims!<\/p>\n

* The terms \u201cwealthy\u201d and \u201caffluent\u201d are intentionally misleading so the writer can tell us about the screwed up finances of black professionals without worrying about a backlash. Nearly all of the families have housing issues with at least one having had a foreclosure.<\/p>\n

The St. Louis Federal Reserve released a report<\/a> showing that black and Hispanic college graduates have a high debt to income ratio, and have seen a negative change in net worth and income over a 20 year period. Home ownership has never been a source of wealth for blacks on average.<\/p>\n

* That article was very biased, unbalanced and quite puerile. The NYT seems to be really poor journalism.<\/p>\n

* I agree, it was a mess of a report. Much fluff and stuff pulled together that did not satisfy the supposed premise of the article. If the families profiled merited being part of some news report it would be a look at various housing issues in Milwaukee, in which race played perhaps some part.<\/p>\n

The mention of car break-ins made me laugh. I live in a comfortable part of a major West Coast city and car break-ins in this neighborhood (and all over the city) are off the wall. Also too many street robberies with a gun in use, and too many home break-ins, \u201chot prowls\u201d and too great an incidence of home invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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