Paternalism
the policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates' supposed best interest:
Why do whites think they can speak to how things are for blacks?
White people are really confident that things are getting better for black people
By Tracy Jan
September 18, 2017
Americans, especially wealthy whites, vastly overestimate progress toward racial economic equality despite evidence of persistent gaps between black and white workers when it comes to hourly wages, annual income and household wealth, according to a new paper by Yale University researchers published Monday.
The study’s results are especially stunning in the wake of census data released last week that showed that African Americans were the only racial group still making less than they did in 2000.
The average black household made 60 percent of what white households made in 2016 and less than half of what Asians made, according to census data. For every $100 of wealth accumulated by a white family, a black family has little more than $5 -- a gap just as wide as it was 50 years ago, according to federal statistics cited by the Yale researchers.
[African Americans are the only racial group in U.S. still making less than they did in 2000]
Yet both black and white Americans of all income levels remain profoundly unaware of the economic inequality between the two groups, said the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The misperceptions could negatively affect public policy as the country grows more diverse, researchers said, with politicians championing misguided legislation rooted in false impressions.
“This is evidence that our beliefs about racial progress and economic equality are fairly inconsistent with reality,” said Jennifer Richeson, a Yale psychology professor who co-wrote the study. “The magnitude of the misperception is shocking, and it’s an obstacle to actually achieving the progress that everyone seems to be celebrating.”
White people are really confident that things are getting better for black people
According to what your link says, Asians make more than whites. Why is that?
Mark
Study: Asians displace blacks as most economically divided group
Income inequality has been growing steadily among all Americans since the 1970s. But within racial groups, the gap between rich and poor is growing most rapidly among Asians in the U.S., according to a new study.
Asians continue to rank as the highest-earning racial and ethnic group in the U.S. on average, but the distribution of income among Asians has gone from being one of the most equal to being the most unequal among all major groups, according to new analysis by the Pew Research Center.
From 1970 to 2016, the gap between higher-earning Asians and lower-earning Asians has nearly doubled and Asians have displaced blacks as the most economically divided racial group in America.
The report found that the income gap between Americans near the top of income distribution (the 90th percentile, or those earning more than 90 percent of all Americans) and those closer to the bottom (the 10th percentile) grew 27 percent from 1970 to 2016. Those higher-earning Americans had 8.7 times as much income as lower-earning Americans in 2016.
But just among Asians in the U.S., that income gap grew 77 percent in the same time period as higher-earning Asians had 10.7 times the income of lower-earning Asians in 2016.
That is now higher than the income gap among blacks: Higher-earning blacks had 9.8 times the income of lower-earning blacks in 2016.
Study: Asians displace blacks as most economically divided group
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If white racism is keeping the blacks down, why aren't whites also keeping the Asians down?
Mark