While it is true that poverty happens to all races, it is also true that poverty happens differently to different races: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_i

While it is true that poverty happens to all races, it is also true that poverty happens differently to different races: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States#Over_time.2C_by_race_and_sex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S... (I'm sorry i don't have more recent data, i did not search very long.) And the article also points out something that rings true to me: That difference is in part caused simply by a lack of ambition. I come from germany, which has a very low spread of difference in wealth, due to strong measures for wealth redistribution. However i also come from east germany, which, even 25 years after the fall of the wall still sees employees earn 30% less than in west germany. And i also do see my family of younger generations, all of which i exceed by an income factor of 4 despite growing up under the same conditions, primarily because they don't believe themselves capable of becoming more, something which is reinforced to them by the environment they live in. Btw, even in germany whenever i see black people, they're primarily in the lower-earning industries. If they're employed at all.