Of course it does. Because blacks as a whole work jobs that pay less. AND they undoubtedly are more represented under the poverty line.
So even when they do work, they are working the types of jobs that pay less instead of pursuing careers that pay more.
The median income has to do with all income. 50% of blacks earn middle income wages or higher. About 20% live below the poverty line. That's bad. The opportunities are there, but they are not taking them. And it is the democratic party that is working so hard to convince them they can't cause America is so racist the odds are so against them and they need the Democratic Party to give them stuff otherwise it's hopeless.
I suspect the "wage gap" between blacks and whites is similar in reasons as the wage gap between men and women, at least among the college educated. Blacks--men and women--are most likely to enter the same fields as white women.
Why is that? Jordan Peterson has some thoughts about why women do it, but I don't know why black men do it. Heck, I don't know why I did it, except that at the time I was graduated from high school, the social impetus was to enter a "socially relevant" field.
But as I say frequently, "There is always more than one thing happening." The relief from Jim Crow began about the same time America's global economic supremacy ended. Wave after wave of economic reversals began affecting Americans across the board just as black people finally gained the ability to move forward.
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