/lit/ - Literature

>>6922484
>Be honest mang, you're white
Ok mang, you got me. But again, those comments weren't mine, they came from this amazon review:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R5OEXOIK1EA66/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0812993543&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books#wasThisHelpful

If it helps your confirmation bias, the review was written by a white woman.

>>6921649
Yes, Blacks without higher level, or even those with a average level, education have a lower employment rate than whites, but this is a symptom of a layered and complex problem that Coates seems incapable of understanding.

Also your own proof contradicts Coates thesis, Blacks who are "twice as good" do make it as far they are told they would.
"While young African American unemployment is
higher than whites at every educational level,
the added value of each additional degree of
educational attainment, in terms of employment
opportunity as well as income, is much greater for young African Americans than young whites."

"The effect of a high school diploma on employment
probability for African American
men is 50 percent larger than the same
degree for a white male, but a professional
degree offers a black male a 146 percent
larger effect than the same degree for
a white male. Similar, though less pronounced
trends exist among women."