Depends who you ask. I think we have identified the problem with leftists and some in the black community, specifically Race Baiting Inc. It's not 2014 to them. It's some time in the past and for many the distant past. Iraq? Is it 2014. NOOOOOOO. It's March 2003. Might even be 2000. Bush did steal the election right. Let's rehash that instead of addressing current day issues. Race relations? Is it 2014? NOOOOOO. It's 1960. Wait, maybe it's 1860. For others it's 1760. Listen to them talk and you'd swear they just got off a slave ship last weekend. Why, why are they stuck in the past? The answer is simple. They have no present day solutions and the reason they have no present day solutions is because to do that they would have to admit their own participation in stoking the problem. They would have to look in the mirror and say gee, maybe I play(ed) a part in all of this. Can't do that. It's all someone else's fault.
There's been an income gap for decades, understandable considering "whites" started the game hitting from the ladies tee. But, while the gap has widened some, it's not so dire as many think. Incomes are rising (sure, too slowly) across the board, notwithstanding recessions. Relative deprivation?
It's because their grandparents didn't trudge through the snow for ten miles to school carrying their lunches in lard buckets.
Interesting, but you're wrong about whites starting at the ladies tee. Using that analogy, whites started playing the game from the men's tees and black were not allowed to play at all. Eventually blacks were allowed to play in 1865, but with serious restrictions. Naturally they didn't play as well. During the 1960's it was decided that blacks should be moved up to the ladies tee's to make up for all the previous restrictions. Seemed like a good idea, but when you take a perfectly capable black man and tell him he plays like a lady, well, that does something to that mans confidence. It also diminishes any success he may demonstrate. It's time to move the black man to the big boys tee box and say there's no reason you can't play from here. Success is not guaranteed, but man, when you hit a great shot there's no feeling quite like it. Now step up and give it a shot.
Well, so much for analogy. The point is, ceteris paribus, you'll probably finish farther up the success ladder if you were born to wealthier parents than to poorer parents. The gap remains because... the gap remains. "Blacks" get affirmative action, "whites" get daddy's Rolodex, so to speak.
The main goal of blacks and their liberal slave masters is to avoid facing any responsibility for their ills. If I had to estimate, I'd say that blacks are responsible for 90% of their own ills. The ever so infamous excuse of slavery and Jim Crow comes up but anyone who's done any history can easily debunk that nonsense. If slavery is the cause of what blacks are doing today, then you've got to explain why the generation of blacks closer to slavery weren't doing the things that you see today. During that time, 89% of black homes had a father, having a kid out of wedlock was a rare occurrence, there was a value on hard work and education, blacks owned businesses, and so forth. There was even a Black Wall Street. All of this was when racism was a real issue. But...liberals and blacks today like to act as if that period never happened. They skip over that period and try to go from slavery to now...because they know that blacks didn't begin to go downhill until they began voting for Democrats and buying into liberal policies. To prove my point, a book titled "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925" is the negro and white liberal's worst nightmare because it documents everything I said above (except the liberal part since his period of study ends in 1925) by citing government census reports. All I can say is...I'm glad I stopped listening to my family and stopped listening to liberals. When I listened to both, I bought into the whole notion that the world hates me because I'm black and other foolishness but when I shook off those beliefs and began to look at what caused my ills in life, I was able to trace is back to some dumb shit I'd done.
True enough, but you paint with a pretty broad brush. Most "whites" aren't anywhere near getting daddy's rolex status, and most "blacks" don't need affirmative action. Going back to the golf analogy,(you knew it was coming), I shoot high 80's, low 90's. Should I receive a million dollar payday for that? Talking to those that think someone should get 15 bucks an hour for bagging burgers...where's my million? Problem is, everyone, blacks and far too many whites, think that they deserve far more than they're worth. Average skills bring average pay, and being average sucks in a world where we see millionaires and billionaires that don't really look any different than we do. People were happier before they had to watch some nightly sitcom full of nitwits making a zillion dollars for acting a fool. As the saying goes, it is what it is.