[moorobot]

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Unless you have specific statistics, I think we must assume that both are equal

[/ QUOTE ] You were making a logical argument originally, not an empirical one. I was simply saying that your conclusion does not logically follow from the premises. Statistics have nothing to do with that.

The reason why this is important to point out is that your argument is a contingent one, meaning that it requires several empirical facts to hold which may not in fact hold in order to have any weight.

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As far as less/lower paying jobs for blacks, that would require institutionalized discrimination, which seems to be the result of the state laws.

[/ QUOTE ] This is false, and quite obviously false. If 20% of employers are racist against blacks to the point of being unwilling to hire them, but only 1% are that racist against whites, then less jobs will be available to them.

Or, if 20% of a service providers customers are racist against blacks, but only 1% of them are racist against whites, even a non-racist owner would tend to make more money hiring a white employee as opposed to a black employee who was identical to the white employee except in skin color.

Finally, if whites have a better education than blacks, perhaps because there parents had less money, on average, than whites, then less jobs would be open to the blacks.