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Forget the reasons or spins on them: is this not shocking in a land of ballyhooed equality?
Does this represent, truly, the differences in all the factors that possibly could factor into a result of this magnitude?
I'd argue that working on strategies to bring these numbers more into alignment should be a major goal of our collectives selves.
160 years after slavery officially was ended, this astounding disparity shouldn't exist.
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Topic - $141,000 vs $11,000: that's the wealth inequality between whites and blacks in this country. - tinear 13:54:16 12/18/14 (29)
- RE: $141,000 vs $11,000: that's the wealth inequality between whites and blacks in this country. - pictureguy 00:44:18 12/19/14 (2)
- RE: $141,000 vs $11,000: that's the wealth inequality between whites and blacks in this country. - mkuller 15:00:09 12/20/14 (1)
- RE: $141,000 vs $11,000: that's the wealth inequality between whites and blacks in this country. - pictureguy 15:19:04 12/20/14 (0)
- The Middle Class--so good for our Baby Boomers-- was a construction of Unions. Middle Classes don't exist in a - jdaniel@jps.net 18:54:54 12/18/14 (10)
- RE: Nice to see you boys playing so nicely together - amioutaline? 11:53:06 12/19/14 (2)
- RE: Nice to see you boys playing so nicely together - mkuller 15:01:07 12/20/14 (0)
- Thanks for your two cents, but the Free Market has determined that the current Middle Class only deserves one. - jdaniel@jps.net 12:09:06 12/19/14 (0)
- Nostalgic for the gilded age? - hcman 23:51:04 12/18/14 (6)
- Wow! You said it! - jdaniel@jps.net 06:48:33 12/19/14 (5)
- Well said. It's as if several generations have forgotten Teddy Roosevelt and the chief reason for his immense - tinear 07:48:26 12/19/14 (4)
- It’s too early for a stiff single malt so I think I will need to go and lay down, I feel decidedly faint … - three_sox 16:00:56 12/19/14 (1)
- You must try Jameson Redbreast, great snobkill whiskey - jdaniel@jps.net 23:14:08 12/19/14 (0)
- RE: Well said. It's as if several generations have forgotten Teddy Roosevelt and the chief reason for his immense - b.l.zeebub 09:24:54 12/19/14 (1)
- Mainly, it's dumb middle-aged (and older) white males. Can't feel sorry for those idiots. nt - tinear 10:00:03 12/19/14 (0)
- Broad-brush pigeon-holing is navel gazing at its worst.... - three_sox 18:10:27 12/18/14 (0)
- How many guys here brag on their Native-American heritage or venerate these people? - tinear 15:30:36 12/18/14 (5)
- RE: How many guys here brag on their Native-American heritage or venerate these people? - Inmate51 17:27:00 12/18/14 (0)
- Tinear, give away everything you have and take yourself out - bullethead 15:37:41 12/18/14 (3)
- RE: Tinear, give away everything you have and take yourself out - Inmate51 08:00:57 12/19/14 (1)
- RE: Tinear, give away everything you have and take yourself out - pictureguy 10:21:29 12/21/14 (0)
- Guilty of what? My point is what to do about it, not to "navel gaze" as an idiot remarked--- - tinear 07:52:49 12/19/14 (0)
- why - bullethead 14:36:09 12/18/14 (0)
- RE: $141,000 vs $11,000: that's the wealth inequality between whites and blacks in this country. - Inmate51 14:03:51 12/18/14 (5)
- The "reasons" are moot. Lower MIddle Class Caucasians have voted to "stick it to the Poor" (Poor being code of course), - jdaniel@jps.net 11:17:08 12/19/14 (4)
- RE: The "reasons" are moot. - Inmate51 12:31:14 12/19/14 (3)
- RE: The "reasons"... - mkuller 12:21:48 12/21/14 (0)
- RE: The "reasons" are moot. - jdaniel@jps.net 13:04:25 12/19/14 (1)
- RE: The "reasons" are moot. - Inmate51 14:59:17 12/19/14 (0)
- "forget the reasons for them"... - semuta 13:59:02 12/18/14 (0)