Dear White Folks - great piece in Ebony

[napoleon_in_rags]

194. There are white people in the ghetto, when you look at the bid idea of what it is.

When you stand back and look at what the ghetto is, you see poverty, people sidelined from society. There are plenty of whites in that same situation, it just more often takes the form of a mobile home with cars broken down outside in the middle of nowhere. But there are white people who are poor, disconnected.

Here's a good chart that shows that black people are getting generally more screwed than whites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States#Over_time_-_by_Race_.26_Sex
Go to 2004 on the right, look at median income for blacks and whites. But remember, that number is the median number. So every white guy you see working at Wal-mart, or McDonald's is making way less than the average white worker, but also less than the average black worker. So 50% of whites are making less than the average white worker, and maybe 30% are making less than the average black worker. So there is prejudice at play, (whites on average do better) but also there are still white people really bad off. Surely you've seen a white guy somewhere with a beard pushing a shopping cart. I'm saying we have to look at the poverty that effects all of us regardless of race.