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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by sremani on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:40PM (#17335648)
In spite of a century the Black population is still concentrated in the South. I am not saying the disparity does not exist.

Blacks are less than 10% of population in California and about 33% of population in Alabama. That it self will skew numbers in certain way.

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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by harryh on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:15PM (#17340880)
The median white person's salary in Alabama is ~29k. The median black person's salary in Alabama is ~20k.

http://www.usacityfacts.com/al/economy/

Your assertion that difference in American black/white incomes is largely due to differences in geographic distribution is wrong.

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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by shipman05 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:49PM (#17335684)
Which in some ways proves the point. Poverty begets poverty. Black Americans are under-represented in the well-educated cohorts of young professionals who get high salary jobs and easily move to high cost-of-living areas.
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