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> Wealthy black people are worse off than poor white people. Citation desperately needed.

• sli 4y ago
  There isn't one, and this thread is going to be absolutely full of similar unsourced claims and leaning into stereotypes, either intentionally or not, so just keep that in mind.
• kareemsabri 4y ago
  Here's a citation showing the opposite. https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-021-01436-z https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12... The difference in health insurance coverage between whites and blacks is 4 percentage points. The difference in health insurance coverage between high and low income households is 10 percentage points.
• bombcar 4y ago
  I can make one up. Kanye is black and wealthy and gets much more negative attention than Jimbob over here who is on disability and sometimes even mows the grass around his trailer. Otherwise, it seems kind of suspicious. Extremely so.
• gnicholas 4y ago
  There are some data regarding worse outcomes for children (especially boys) of wealthy black families, compared to poorer white families. For example, they are more likely to go to jail. [1] I believe there may be similar data regarding income/wealth outcomes as well, but the best I could find quickly relates to middle class black families, not wealthy ones. [2] Of course, this doesn't mean the families are worse off overall, but it does tend to indicate that there are some things working against black families, even middle- and upper-class ones. 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/23/poor-white-kids-are-less-likely-to-go-to-prison-than-rich-black-kids/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/23/poor-... 2: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/how-black-middle-class-kids-become-black-lower-class-adults/384613/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/how-bla...