The headline and article make some strange assertions. The fact that black men are vastly overrepresented among the improvised seems to go against the headline.

The headline and article make some strange assertions. The fact that black men are vastly overrepresented among the improvised seems to go against the headline. The writer mentions that education and the military are strongly tied to success without mentioning the educational benefits offered by the military, like the GI bill, that are otherwise largely unavailable to the poor. This feels like another “post-race” America article. While I wish that for our country, we’re far from from it. Let’s acknowledge progress while keeping things in perspective. Black men being the most likely to be in poverty according to the charts is not success.