Study Shows Democrats Pay Black Staffers 30 Percent Less Than Whites; Will Media Cover?

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Baalzamon said:

binary solo said:
Hence if you grossly compare pay according to race you will always find the majority race to have a higher average pay than the minority races.

What? I'll illustrate why this is wrong.

Lets use a fake company called Black & White LTD. They have 150 employees, 30 of which are black (20%). The company only has 2 different pay scales: Grunt, and Manager. Grunts make $50,000 per year, and managers make $100,000 per year. 125 of the employees are grunts, where 25 of the employees are managers. The law of averages says that 25 of the grunts will be black people (20%), and 5 of the managers will be black people (20%). The average manager pay is thus $58,333 per year. For white people, 100 will be grunts, and 20 will be managers, thus having an average pay of $58,333.

If averages were truly spread evenly throughout all companies, then the average wage of all minorities would be the exact same (assuming the same average education, location, etc.).

Yes, in a truly equal society and I am guilty of oversimplification. But in the real world only one black person will be a manager and 29 be grunts, thus skewing the average salary in favour of the whites.

There are historical as well as contemporary reasons for why certain minoroities are under-represented in the upper echelons of income and organisational seniority. So an under-representation in senior positions in an organisation is not necessarily indicative of organisational racism. But it is an indication of societal racial inequality, of which an organisation is merely a reflection. If an organisation has a seniority balance more favourable to historically disadvantaged minorities than the generality of society, then this is likely to reflect well on the culture of that organisation. But still, unless it meets that ideal of truly proportional equality there will still be a gross pay differential based on race in favour of the historically more advantaged race.

The fact remains that the OP and associated right wing diatribe seems to be based on a very bad, and selective analysis of what seems to be a reasonably objective study.