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Nearly all accusations of systemic racism are not based on hard data, but on nonsensical anecdote.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/10/systemic-racism-is-a-conspiracy-theory/
Racism today plays a marginal role in American life.
The body of further evidence supporting the conclusion that group performance is not largely a result of racism is truly massive. Perhaps most obviously, most of the highest-performing groups in the United States are not white. As per the 2019 American Community Survey, the wealthiest group of Americans is not Anglo-Saxon ‘WASPs’ – or Jews as is often claimed – but Indian Americans, with a median household income of $135,816. Taiwanese Americans come in second place, at $102,405. All in all, seven of the 10 highest-earning groups – Indians, Taiwanese, Filipinos, Indonesians, Pakistanis, Iranians and Lebanese Americans – are not ‘white’ as this term is generally conceptualised. Another Top 10 group – South Africans, with $98,212 – consists of white and black immigrants, who both seem to do quite well away from their homeland’s quarrels.
In fact, quite a few black or majority-black groups are ahead of the average income for US whites ($65,902). Ghanaian Americans bring home a healthy $69,021 annually, Nigerians earn $68,658 and Guyanese Americans make $67,772 on average.
A number of black groups, while not high earners, earn more than some large and mostly (if not entirely) white groups like Cajuns ($52,866) and those who identify their race simply as ‘American’ ($58,601). Remarkably, the average income for Ghanaian Americans, a group composed largely of recent immigrants, was roughly $26,000 higher than the average income ($43,862) for native-born African-American households.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/10/systemic-racism-is-a-conspiracy-theory/
Racism today plays a marginal role in American life.
The body of further evidence supporting the conclusion that group performance is not largely a result of racism is truly massive. Perhaps most obviously, most of the highest-performing groups in the United States are not white. As per the 2019 American Community Survey, the wealthiest group of Americans is not Anglo-Saxon ‘WASPs’ – or Jews as is often claimed – but Indian Americans, with a median household income of $135,816. Taiwanese Americans come in second place, at $102,405. All in all, seven of the 10 highest-earning groups – Indians, Taiwanese, Filipinos, Indonesians, Pakistanis, Iranians and Lebanese Americans – are not ‘white’ as this term is generally conceptualised. Another Top 10 group – South Africans, with $98,212 – consists of white and black immigrants, who both seem to do quite well away from their homeland’s quarrels.
In fact, quite a few black or majority-black groups are ahead of the average income for US whites ($65,902). Ghanaian Americans bring home a healthy $69,021 annually, Nigerians earn $68,658 and Guyanese Americans make $67,772 on average.
A number of black groups, while not high earners, earn more than some large and mostly (if not entirely) white groups like Cajuns ($52,866) and those who identify their race simply as ‘American’ ($58,601). Remarkably, the average income for Ghanaian Americans, a group composed largely of recent immigrants, was roughly $26,000 higher than the average income ($43,862) for native-born African-American households.
