[NY Times] Black People With College Degrees Are Still Less Wealthy Than White High School Dropouts

[Poitier]

Educated blacks would cake going back to a emerging african nation like angola or any oil rich country in Africa with a skill shortage

@Din0can

 

[Bunchy Carter]

that some bullshyt they really pulled some hoe shyt

shyt it's not going to be the first time. It's like that working in the science field, there is a 90% chance I will be the only black person in the lab, at my current job, I'm the first black person in the lab since the 1970's. Real talk.

In the united states we only have one Black owned lab and it's owned by a group of Ethopians.

Ethiopians Open First Black Owned Environmental Laboratory in US

Geoscope Environmental Laboratory
Geoscope Environmental Laboratories

 

[HowardHughes]

@Din0can

Dont quote me bro were not on the same level

 

[Poitier]

Dont quote me bro were not on the same level

im past you, gnat.

 

[#1 pick]

This is the nonsense for real. I can say I know brothas personally eating. My cousin younger than me and already a director. Man there is more to this. I have to get it. I have to.

 

[Calmye]

How do you not get this? These jobs are typically in the suburbs and families have held these jobs for generations. The few given out are done through connections. As for highschool drop outs, it's rampant. Why would someone focus on school when they are planning on working at the plant anyway. This is common knowledge, I've seen it too much.

So these are union jobs

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

It's all a game; you just have to keep pushing and don't let these motherfukkers kill your self esteem.

This is a lie black boomers and black generation x stand upon. Keep pushing with your dream ahead. Don't keep pushing with that old model of Degree > Job > ??? > Profit.
This is not 90s pg county or 90s atlanta.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

This is a lie black boomers and black generation x stand upon. Keep pushing with your dream ahead. Don't keep pushing with that old model of Degree > Job > ??? > Profit.
This is not 90s pg county or 90s atlanta.

What the fukk are you talking about?

 

[WSFGDan]

 

[mamba]

Part of it is the fact that a lot of Black people major in bullshyt in college.

A construction worker who dropped out of high school is going to make nearly as much or more money and live more comfortably than a person who has degrees in english, sociology, psychology, women's studies, exercise science, sports studies, etc. and a bunch of debt.

We don't have the networks to be able to major in weak shyt and still be able to land a good job.

Maybe one day we'll have a network of Black businesses that can absorb a lot of Black graduates.

Until that time, nikkas need to be majoring in marketable shyt like Math, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, etc.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Part of it is the fact that a lot of Black people major in bullshyt in college.

A construction worker who dropped out of high school is going to make nearly as much or more money and live more comfortably than a person who has degrees in sociology, psychology, women's studies, exercise science, sports studies, etc. and a bunch of debt.

Sadly this is the elephant in the room. This is not discounting the fact stem majors for example suffer from a wage gap too. However waaaay to many black people major in bullshyt to be perfectly honest such as the majors you listed. I might of missed it but did this study control for what major these people are taking.

 

[151_Pr00f]

I have two sisters with bachelor's degrees. One recently graduated with one in biology. Struggle for months to find a job and finally landed a minimum wage gig as a secretary for a doctor at a veterinarian's office. I make more than her and only have a high school diploma doing welding. She's even tried going through temp agencies to get a warehouse job until she finds something better. That would atleast pay her 12.00 an hour but is too overqualified for that type of work. They won't call her back for an interview.....

She's pursuing her masters though. Hope she goes into teaching.......

 

[mamba]

Sadly this is the elephant in the room. This is not discounting the fact stem majors for example suffer from a wage gap too. However waaaay to many black people major in bullshyt to be perfectly honest such as the majors you listed. I might of missed it but did this study control for what major these people are taking.

From what I read, it didn't control for major.

Most Black people don't want to work hard in college. Life is one big party for most nikkas. That is, until they reach 32 and realize they have a long life ahead of them and that they didn't put in the work in those early years to establish themselves.

shyt gets real in your 30s if you haven't laid the proper foundation for your life.

30s can be the best decade of your life or the worst decade.

 

[newworldafro]

that some bullshyt they really pulled some hoe shyt

Nah it's real.

 

[EndDomination]

I have two sister with bachelor's degrees. One recently graduated with one in biology. Struggle for months to find a job and finally landed a minimum wage gig as a secretary as a doctor at a veterinarian's office. I make more than her and only have a high school diploma doing welding. She's even tried going through temp agencies to get a warehouse job until she finds something better. That would atleast pay her 12.00 an hour but is too overqualified for that type of work. They won't call her back for an interview.....

She's pursuing her masters though. Hope she goes into teaching.......

Biology is a terrible major unless you're going for an MD/DO/RN/Pharm
The White kids with Bio majors are struggling too.