Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Young, White, and Happy

MSNBC reports in a poll that "from their relationships to their jobs to their money" young white Americans are happier than young people of color. The response?

“It doesn’t surprise me,” said Martin Carpenter, 21, a black New Jersey resident.

These young people on the whole are less at risk for financial trouble and drug use, less likely to be targeted by police, more likely to go to college, and not the target of racism then of course this poll would produce such results.

Maybe next we can get MSNBC to take a poll that finds business majors are more likely to have higher incomes than English majors.

Cross-posted on campusprogress.org/blog.

1 comment:

Zorro said...

"These young people on the whole are less at risk for financial trouble and drug use, less likely to be targeted by police, more likely to go to college, and not the target of racism then of course this poll would produce such results."

That isn't even a sentence.

Also, Kay, your attempt at a pithy and incisive conclusion is just SAD.

-Z

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