The corporate media seem to have accepted Donald Trump’s emphasis on the economic problems of working class Whites. This ignores the fact African-Americans experience more of these same stressors, as we are reminded in this video from the centrist think tank, the Brookings Institution.

None of these statistics–with the exception of the marijuana arrest rate–tell us whether the problems of Black Americans are a result of racial discrimination or some other cause. However, we can be fairly confident that when Whites experience the same difficulties, they are not a result of discrimination.