Want to know why so many black people are poor, have been poor, and will remain poor?

 

Open the link to go to the CBB visualization app of REAL data from the U.S. Census Bureau.  The visualization criteria is percent of black-owned employer firms and percentage of black/African-American people as a population in the selected detail – in this case all metropolitan areas in America.  You will notice that nationwide as a percentage black-owned employers is low with some areas having almost NO black-owned businesses even though there is a high percentage of black people in the detail area.  For instance, the Jackson, MS metro area has 64% black population but has a negligible amount  of black-owned businesses – either the data is unavailable, it has been suppressed, or my guess is that it is too low to show on a graph of whole numbers.

 

Play around with the criteria to see how other factors provide different answers.  And you can change criteria to see all types of other information. Exciting facts are at our fingertips – you don’t have to guess or wonder – the US government makes all kinds of information available for free.  Just use it for good.