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I think that his argument was that other minorities do much better, despite also being hugely disadvantaged. Not to mention immigrants, who often go to USA wit

I think that his argument was that other minorities do much better, despite also being hugely disadvantaged. Not to mention immigrants, who often go to USA with noting else than a bag of clotes and a desire to work hard and get a better life, and they do pretty well as a group.

marchenko 10y ago
other minority groups may do well in part precisely because they are not black - they are not subject to the same prejudices and stereotypes. Minorities are not fungible entities, especially not in the US, where the primary social distinction is better characterized as "black v. nonblack", rather than he more common "black v white", which obscures a lot of very subtle social stratification. Additionally, recent immigrants do not suffer from a lot of the entrenched negative network effects hindering the black community. Being free of your underperforming network of kin in a society that labels you as 'other' rather than 'danger' is actually advantageous.
- BurningFrog 10y ago
  The interesting point is that immigrated blacks - Africans and Caribbeans - do about as well as other immigrant groups. This is very damaging to the skin color discrimination theory of poverty, especially since these groups are considerably darker on average than native born US blacks.