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They address why they're looking at whites a few paragraphs in, though >While blacks and Hispanics without college degrees are also falling behind economically
by allemagne 10y ago
They address why they're looking at whites a few paragraphs in, though
>While blacks and Hispanics without college degrees are also falling behind economically and socially, middle-age mortality has worsened for whites in particular over the past 20 years—a fact some attribute partly to social context.
Do you specifically disagree with this?
- dkhenry 10y agoYes! to say this is a racial social context issue is so far off the mark as to make this blatantly racist. Compare mortality directly with economic markers, obviously a group of people who historically have been less economically disadvantaged are going to regress to the mean faster then a group that has been living with it for generations.
- joatmon-snoo 10y agoThis comment misses the point - that by focusing specifically on white America, there's the subtle implication that now that white America is facing issues that minorities have faced for generations, this is a problem that we should care about.