The percentage of black Americans living under the poverty line (28.4 percent) is still dramatically higher than among Americans in general (13.4 percent), but it’s the lowest recorded since 1955.
Black homeownership has been increasing twice as fast as white home ownership since 1993.
Mr. DiIulio concludes that if Black America were a separate nation, “it would be easily be one of the richest in the world, both financially and socially.” The handicaps and disadvantages the black Americans must struggle with are all too well known; the rapid progress of black America is often, ignored. As if it were… invisible.