Do the networks figure blacks couldn't legitimately earn a position at the writer's table without having a place set especially for them?

Wages here range from $70 to $100 a month, which is less than blacks can earn around the major metropolitan areas.

Among families with working wives, blacks earned 72 percent of what whites did in 1968.

With blacks and Hispanics still earning less than whites, the school has had difficulty ensuring that the wealthiest families are not all white.

Fewer blacks earned bachelor's degrees in 1991 than in 1979.

The study reported that 1,708 blacks earned Ph.D.'s in 2003, up from 925 two decades earlier, an 85 percent increase.

The controversy I have in mind is, Why do blacks earn less than whites do?

Overall, blacks earn about a third of what whites earn.

In addition, blacks, especially black men, earned fewer bachelor's and master's degrees over the last decade.

For the first time, it is being reported here that blacks eat less well, get less education, earn less and die earlier than whites.