Today I was looking at the U.S. Census. Now, to answer a question, you can’t always get a table of Honey Crisp apples. Sometimes it’s apples and oranges in a box. For instance, I looked at the Family Income by race—but the table didn’t define “family.” That’s not necessarily mom, dad and kids. I suppose for census purposes it’s any group of related people living in a household, but I don’t actually know. Anyway, it’s Table 695. Money Income of Families—Number and Distribution by Race and Hispanic Origin: 2009. U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012 Based on that table, the percent of white families earning over $100,000 is 27%; the percent of black families earning over $100,000 is 12.1%; the percent of Hispanic families earning over $100,000 is 12.4% and the percent of Asian families earning over $100,000 is 37.7%. So if whites are 77.7% of the population and blacks are 13.2%, and Asians are 5.3%, if something needs to be investigated, if something isn’t “fair,” if the president wants to address a wealth gap, wouldn’t it be the fault of the Asian families? What are they doing to “deserve” such a big slice of the pie? Marriage? Education? Values? Entrepreneurship? Have you ever heard the president chastise Asians for their education, intelligence, hard work? Their median family income is $75,027, black family income is $38,409.
Saturday, December 06, 2014
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