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Re: The Limits To Growth



rkish@ivory.trentu.ca wrote for all to see:

>In article <AEB8AE12-8E54F@128.112.44.101>, "Don Dale" <dale@princeton.edu> writes:
>>>> This is false.  Genocide is the result not of any "economism,"
>>>> whatever that may be, but of reversion to pre-economic racisms. In
>>>> Rwanda as in Germany, it is the expression of ancient tribalism.
>>>>  
>>>>                                      -dlj.
>>> 
>>>This is simply not correct, sorry.  The problem in Bosnia, Rwanda, 
>>>Burundi, Azerbajan, Los Angeles and many other places is that a 
>>>relatively affluent minority rules.  As in the French and Russian 
>>>revolutions, a point comes when the majority revolts and sets about
>>>killing off the minority.  This is political economics, not tribalism.
>>>The tribal differences are historic and lie behind the minority rule 
>>>but are not the cause of the revolt.
>>
>>Los Angeles?  *That* was a class revolt?
>>
>Absolutely- the median income in the US for white households is over 
>$43,000, while the median income for black households is $4,170.  This is 
>relevant because it helps explain some of the frustrations of the African 
>American minority- which includes poverty, discrimination and the feeling 
>of being powerless.  

When you start with grossly incorrect data, you cannot possibly arrive
at any correct conclusions.  As a group, according to the US
Statistical abstracts, white families make about $39,000 per family,
while black families make considerably less, about $23,000 (but this
is a lot more than your $4,170!).

But even these do not tell the whole story.  Due to a larger number of
illegitimate births, black families are more likely than white to be
headed by a female, instead of a couple.  This lowers the average
considerably.

I do not have the figures with me, but, correcting for family
composition allows a better, more realistic comparison.  According to
economist Walter WIlliams, correction for education and family
composition brings the figure to within 10%.

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Regards, Harold
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"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration 
of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can 
bear discussion and publicity."
	---Lord Acton (1834-1902) Letter, 23 Jan. 1861 



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