[neverdem]

The Slimes never misses a chance to blather about racism, even in a story in which it provides hard numbers that scream about the cultural difference which explains the income gap.

[glorgau]

A clear reason for reparations.

[Eagles Talon IV]

Investigators for the NYSLIMES have determined that the 65,000 Queens population is broken down as 64,998 blacks and 2 whites.
Robert Sanger and Willie Farnsworth are vagrants living in a cardboard box. They earn approximately $35,000 annually running their Lemonade stand on the corner of 16th and Elm.

[CWOJackson]

I bet the same can be said about Harlem.

[Free ThinkerNY]

What will race-hustlers like Sharpton do if the black middle-class continues to increase? Get real jobs? Or, continue to exploit the black underclass?

[Torie]

LI ping

[Larry Lucido]

The median income of foreign-born black households was $61,151, compared with $45,864 for American-born blacks.

Wait. How is that possible? Wouldn't the racism that keeps American-born blacks behind work the same way on foreign-born blacks? Hmmmm?

(Actually, Thomas Sowell addressed this very thing years ago, in Ethnic America).

[denydenydeny]

As conservatives have been saying for some time, the primary "barriers" to minority achievement are mental ones, and the data here tend to support that.

[MarkL]

The Slimes never misses a chance to blather about racism, even in a story in which it provides hard numbers that scream about the cultural difference which explains the income gap.

You've hit the nail right on the head... "Cultural difference." Long ago, I worked at a large chain drugstore, and there were a number of blacks working there. Of them, 3 were from the caribean or indies. You could tell those 3 were "different," even just by looking at them. They carried themselves differently, were better dressed (and not just than the other blacks, but all the employees in the store, myself included), and you could easily understand what they said when they spoke, even with heavy accents. They were polite and hard working. One whom I got to know quite well was in his mid-twenties at the time, holding down 2 full time jobs, and going to night school: Fist to get his GED, and eventually to go to college.

That level of motivation and dedication will guarentee success.

Mark

[VOA]

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[KellyAdmirer]

George Jefferson is movin' on up, while Archie is still stuck with Meathead. Meat Head.

[Toby06]

Bush's fault!

[Finalapproach29er]

Does this mean whites need affirmative action in Queens?

[Kieri]

The gains among blacks in Queens, the city’s quintessential middle-class borough, were driven largely by the growth of two-parent families and the successes of immigrants from the West Indies.

I can't believe this little gem was completely ignored!!

You mean to tell me that a 22-year old single black woman with five children all by different fathers , who's currently residing with her latest baby daddy isn't contributing to the gains in personal income??? How *DARE* the NYT insinuate that this spawner -- herself the third child of seven who never knew which man on the couch was her father -- isn't part of the minority success story in NY??

I don't know where to begin...!

[montag813]

“When immigrants come here, they’re not accustomed to social programs,” he said, “and when they see opportunities they had no access to — tuition or academic or practical training — they are God-sent, and they use those programs to build themselves and move forward.”

That sums it up in a nutshell. New York City has an international affirmative action program. We import minorities from other countries and give them massive preferences that native-born whites cannot dream of getting.

Absolutely disgusting.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

There it is! proof that leftist policies have kept blacks down. Get rid of all the false "social" programs ("affirmative action", racial-set-asides, race norming, race quotas in hiring and college admissions, ability to have someone arrested and prosecuted under false pretenses of a "hate crime") and blacks will soar ahead and do very well.

[fightu4it]

I have to wonder about how todays upwardly mobile blacks view organizations like the NAACP.

[jimfree]

It's hard to find a so-called news article with more specious conclusions. Let's see - - foreign born blacks make more money so it's clear there is white racism? I no longer play in that sandbox. I don't give a damn that somebody else perceives racism. It is not a productive pursuit for either of us to hold continue.