Is Inequality as Tragic as It Seems?

Inequality is tragic, and it's not going to be remediated or repaired until we actually get the causal story correct. The fact that this generation of black americans is doing much, much, much better than their parents doesn't capture how far they've come. You can compare a group to itself at an earlier point in time - you note huge progress on health. Incarceration rates have more than cut in half since i was in kindergarten. It could be the case that both are making rather fantastic progress. But so long as one is ahead, it will look like nothing changing.