Beached White Males?

I know the source will be controversial as jesse jackson or glenn beck might be, but if you are willing to watch in spite of the speaker and listen to the words

http://www.timwise.org/


bill cosby had controversial things to say about the poor years ago but it wasnt necessarily untrue , generally speaking

this is similarly insightful, controversial, but not necessarily untrue

for the record, like anyone else, I dont agree with Tim Wise on EVERYTHING at all,

but on this I think he touched on some historically and statistically relevant information

i don't know... what he is saying might have some truth to it, but i kept hearing probably, and could... he did not have anything to back up what he was saying, so it felt like it was a blog post to me...just opinions and not much facts... i did find it hard to believe that the educated Asians are around 20% unemployed....

20% more likely to be unemployed,,,not 20% unemployed

ok, that even makes less sense... how did he figure that out?

its not hard with data

say the jones have 10 adults in their family and the browns have 20 adults in theirs,,for a total of 30 adults


say the unemployment amongst the jones is 2/10(20%)
say the unemployment amongst the browns is 3/20 (15%)
the total unemployment would be 5/20(10%)

but


comparing the two groups, we would say the jones are 33% more likely (comparing 15 to 20, leaves a difference of 5 percent which is 33 percent of 15) to be unemployed than the browns, even though the browns have more PEOPLE unemployed

yea, we know that people can use statistics to make any point...
thats what happens when people want to difference themselves... we are all Americans, mostly, and there 13% of them out of work but every race says they are worse off and need special help, or being discriminated against, blah blah blah...

thats true, I think the presentation was specifically commenting on a newsweek article that was actually titled 'beached white males',,,,

which had, by definition, pointed out some significance to race

well, contrary to popular belief, the majority of the white people are no better off than anyone else in America right now... granted there probably more rich white people than most races, but blacks are a close 2nd...

95000 to 2200 is not that close, but the majority of working class people are feeling similar economic woes

again, where did you come up with those figures?

from what I remember of his presentation
but there are many sources and studies with similar findings if you google 'racial wealth gap'

here is one source
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100517070105.htm

maybe, i don't know... seems like there are more wealty black folks out there more than ever now, compared to 20 years ago... but maybe thats just me

of course, its not just you,, there are more PEOPLE here compared to 20 years ago

but the percentage of wealth has declined for minorities while it has concurrently increased for non minorities