(November 20, 2010 at 8:59 am)Dotard Wrote: It's like a white man moving to china and then complaining white people on average are poorer than chinese people.Erm...that's not what your stats show at all. If 20% of white people are 'rich' and 20% of black people are 'rich', then on average (assuming we are only separating into groups of 'rich' and 'poor') they are the same.
100 white people. 20% are 'rich'. 20 rich white people.
10 black people. 20% are 'rich'. 2 rich black people.
Conspiracy theorist; Wealthly white people out number wealthy black people 20 to 2! On average black people are poorer than white people!
Sound the alarm.....
I think the point that is being made here is that your 20% white/black example isn't the case in the real world. White people have a higher percentage of people classified as 'rich' than black people do. It has nothing to do with absolute numbers; it has everything to do with percentages, which are lower on the black side.