Most of the racial economic divide is better correlated to the marriage / legitimacy rate than anything else.
Two thirds of black kids are illegitimate, two thirds of white kids are legitimate. White single mothers have fewer kids than married white mothers; black single women are the only group for which the inverse is true.
Single mothers tend to have less educated kids, children more likely to do drugs, get arrested, become mentally ill, never work, go on disability, have more illegitimate children.
The disparity of black versus white isn’t due to racism. It is due to the race hustlers of the 1960s who pushed the poor to sign up for welfare programs that penalized marriage, resulting in an illegitimacy rate that was several times higher in the 1970s than the 1950s.
Even Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan was concerned about that trend several decades ago.
The reason blacks are still disproportionately poor and under achieving today is the relative dissolution of the family unit for the past two generations because of the programs the government rolled out to help them.
For middle class blacks who follow the finish school, stay out of trouble, marry the woman model, they do just as well in most regards as whites. Asians, who follow that model, are as successful as the whites.
The problem with black poverty is the destruction of the married two parent family in that community caused by government and black leaders who encouraged dependance, not the majority around them.
Well said.