Racism and Poverty

Racism and poverty produce great and unjust suffering among the American people. Their individual effects form a convolved causality which is difficult to unravel. However, it is vital to untangle this causal chain because the solution to the problems of racism and of poverty are quite different. Trying to address racism, when the real cause is poverty, is unproductive and wasteful.  

There are many examples in which a black study group is is asserted to have worse outcomes than a  white study. But the analysis ignores the fact that the average economic state of the black person in the study population, is much lower that than of the white person. So the worse outcome may be a result of poverty rather than racism, as it appears on the surface. 

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