We are used to noticing racism and putting it into words. We’re less accustomed to naming classism
African Americans have broken two new barriers, according to the Pew Charitable Trust Economic Mobility Project’s new report.
Almost half the children of middle-class Blacks have fallen into the lowest income bracket in the last 30 years, the first generation in a century to lose so much ground. And for the first time, a majority of African Americans polled say that Blacks are responsible for their own economic situations, and that the values of poor and middle-class Blacks have become more different over the last generation. ...