Are You Spitting Me?

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(06-19-2019, 11:47 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Whether it was refusal to rent/sell to black people or practices like red lining that used factors like amount of black residents as reasons to deny loans to neighborhoods, we have seen black home ownership trail white homeownership, preventing the development of wealth that often passes from one generation to the next.

The biggest answer is really simple and it doesn't have anything to do with racism (though that is still possibly also a smaller answer): Make two parent households.

People more likely to live in a house? Two parent households.
People more likely to get a college degree? Two parent households.
People more likely to be middle class or higher? Two parent households.

If you look at the numbers of two parent households out there, it directly matches with pretty much all indicators of wealth and success. Having either two parents bringing in income, or one parent brining in income while another is able to focus on the child's development and welfare is a huge advantage, and also leads to more being passed from one generation to the next. Asians are first, whites second, hispanic/latino third, natives/inuits fourth, and african americans (a far) fifth on having two parent households. That list lines up with those indicators pretty clearly.

So if you really want to change things for the better for african americans, convince them to make two parent households. They are currently only doing so about 33-35% of the time compared to 76-77% for whites and 84-85% for asian/pacific islanders. That's an enormous difference.