The Boston Globe is trying to guilt trip the people of Boston with a series of stories about race which inadvertently shows why no one should feel any racial guilt:
- African-Americans in Greater Boston have a median net worth of $8
- African-Americans are 1% of board members of publicly traded firms in Massachusetts
- In 1983, 4.5% of black workers were officials and managers. In 2016, it was 4.6%
- In 1983, an organization of Boston’s most powerful business leaders had no black members. In 2015, it still had no black members
- In 1983, black unemployment was twice as high as White unemployment. In 2015, black unemployment is still twice as high as White unemployment
- Only 4% of households that earn more than $75,000 are black
Think about it: Massachusetts is a Deep Blue state. Slavery was abolished there as early as 1783. Interracial marriage has been legal there since 1843. Massachusetts was one of the few states where blacks were able to vote for decades before the War Between the States.
Unlike the South, Massachusetts was the pioneer of abolition, civil rights and integration and the national wellspring of the push for racial equality. Segregation has been illegal there since 1866. It enacted twelve statutes banning segregation between 1865 and 1957. It voted twice for Barack Obama. Deval Patrick, the last governor of Massachusetts, was black.
If the dream of racial equality was going to happen anywhere in America, it would have happened in Boston where liberals have been pushing toward that goal since the American Revolution, but in 2017 the median net worth of African-Americans there is $8. There has been no progress on that front in 35 years even after a black governor and a black president who served two terms.
It didn’t happen because the original premise that “all men are created equal” is false. There is no reason to believe it ever will happen either. It is time to move on.