While the Democratic Party continues to cry racism and rail about oppression against blacks, they are ignoring basic facts that show Black America is not just surviving, but thriving. Of course, most liberal lawmakers know this but will never admit it. Why would they? It would fly in the face of their mission to push government overreach and perpetuate a system that handcuffs minority families to federal assistance.
This is not my opinion, by the way. Data from the latest annual report from the Census Bureau, Income and Poverty in the United States, bears this out:
Annual real median household income in the U.S. increased 6.8% in 2019, the largest annual increase recorded by the Census Bureau going back to 1967. Black median household income in 2019 increased 7.9%, the largest on record.
Moreover, in 2019, 29.4% of Black households had income of $75,000 or more, compared with 28.7% of Black households that had income of $25,000 or less.
In 1967, 44.5% of Black households were low-income, compared with 9.1% high-income. 2019 was the first time, ever, that the percentage of high-income Black households exceeded the percentage of low-income Black households.
In 2019, Business equity among Blacks increased 138%.
I bring these numbers up to show that the oversimplification of the state of Black people in the U.S. is an ingrained part of liberal messaging. It distorts the true picture of what is happening, which is that the problems that still impact blacks — and there are absolutely problems that persist — have less to do with systemic racism and more to do with the breakdown of the family unit.
But that’s the part of the message those on the left don’t want you to hear.
