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Discrimination deprived the world of a black Einstein?
Every occupation that's more than 90 percent white, according to the BLS, including vets, CEOs, and private detectives.
DEREK THOMPSON
The workforce is even more stratified by race than you’d imagine.
The racial gaps are stark at the job level, too.
The racial gaps are stark at the job level, too.
Whites account for about 81 percent of the workforce. But there are 33 occupations counted by the BLS (particularly those on farms, around heavy machines, in doctor’s offices, and in C-suites) where whites officially account for nine in ten of all workers, or more. Here they are.
I'm passing this along, not because I think it tells us something extraordinarily new, but as a side salad to this longer piece about jobs and race. Still I'd be fascinated to hear theories about the list, because I'm not even going to try.
Asians account for 20 percent of physicians and surgeons, but just 1 percent of vets. Grounds cleaning/maintenance workers are 44 percent black, but groundskeepers are 90 percent white. I don't know why, maybe you do.
Again, for more on the racial stratification of the workforce, go here.
UPDATE: Looking over this list, you might have noticed that many of the occupations are skilled construction jobs, such as electricians and carpenters. That's not a coincidence. Trade unions have had a complicated, and often ugly, history with race that's helped shut blacks and Hispanics out of these highly coveted lines of work. In 2005, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote about the impact on Chicago's South Side:
"Chicago is a union town. But in Mitts’ ward–and among many poor blacks–some unions rank only a couple of notches above the Ku Klux Klan. Black leaders in Chicago have repeatedly charged that the building-trades unions, traditionally controlled by whites, are keeping a grip on jobs. While 37% of Chicago is black, only 10% of all new apprentices in the construction trades between 2000 and 2003 were black, according to the Chicago Tribune."
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And of course Ta-Nehisi (seriously, where do they get these names) Coates is an exemplar of open-mindedness on race, having banned yours truly from Atlantic Online forever (and I never did thank him) for having posted a polite factual reference to black violent crime rates when Coates was dismissing any significance to a black rap 'artist' depicting what were supposed to be dead bodies of white women draped around in one of his music videos
We can only imagine if a white singer had done the opposite. And, of course, a white singer never would have had the desire to do any such thing--but of course whites are are always supposed to be bad guys. Interesting how that works.
Yet more proof that multiracial/
multicultural societies do not work and never will work.
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