Disparities

 

                                                                     Disparities

Critical Race Theory argues that disparity in racial results in society can be explained by the presence of bigotry. But what if there are other possibilities.

Data demonstrate that there are three simple behavioral rules for avoiding poverty: finish high school, produce no child before marrying or before age twenty. Only 8 percent of families who conform to all three rules are poor; 79 percent of those who do not conform are poor. 

Could that imply that some disparities might be the result of bad choices? And not someone else's fault?  That one disparity begets the other? Perhaps not. But one basic notion of Critical Theory is that, on one hand , your life is out of your control for some and, for those same people, their life can be stabilized and improved only by someone else.