{"id":17366,"date":"2021-07-26T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/target\/why-many-americans-cant-see-the-wealth-gap-between-white-and-black-america\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T16:01:53","slug":"why-many-americans-cant-see-the-wealth-gap-between-white-and-black-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/why-many-americans-cant-see-the-wealth-gap-between-white-and-black-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Many Americans Can\u2019t See The Wealth Gap Between White And Black America"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\r\n<p>For many sports fans, FiveThirtyEight is a go-to resource for stats. They don&#8217;t just cover sports, though, as evidenced by this #goodread &#8230;<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;In the last year and a quarter, the pandemic has served as a stark reminder of just how unequal America still is. But it also hasn\u2019t been a \u201creminder\u201d for everyone. Black Americans and other Americans of color didn\u2019t have the luxury of forgetting that American society is unequal.<\/p>\r\n<p>For Black Americans, in particular, the statistics around the inequalities of COVID-19 are numerical stand-ins for a much larger issue that permeates so many aspects of life \u2014 everything from being able to get a life-saving vaccine to the risk of being killed by police.<\/p>\r\n<p>The reality is that our nation is still racially segregated. And it\u2019s segregated in ways that limit our opportunities to learn about each other\u2019s life experiences, even if our laws do not formally segregate our nation as they once did. This means that some live in a world in which they rarely encounter the conditions that bring harm to others everyday; others can\u2019t escape those very conditions.<\/p>\r\n<p>You can see this segregation in great detail by exploring the University of Virginia\u2019s Racial Dot Map, which takes data from the 2010 U.S. Census and plots where people are living across the country. For instance, take southeastern Michigan, where I lived as a graduate student. You can see clear geographic separation between predominantly Black, white, Asian and Hispanic neighborhoods. [&#8230;]&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-many-americans-dont-see-the-racial-wealth-gap\/?ex_cid=story-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE at fivethirtyeight.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#racialwealthgap #incomeinequality #segregation #inequity #systemicracism<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17409 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-racial-wealth-gap.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot racial-wealth-gap\" width=\"627\" height=\"684\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-racial-wealth-gap.jpg 627w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-racial-wealth-gap-275x300.jpg 275w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 627px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 627\/684;\" \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many sports fans, FiveThirtyEight is a go-to resource for stats. They don&#8217;t just cover sports, though, as evidenced by this #goodread<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/why-many-americans-cant-see-the-wealth-gap-between-white-and-black-america\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":17367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,517,3,26,10,518],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17411,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions\/17411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}