While I generally agree, I wouldn't put that much emphasis on the racial divide ( that it's real ), in NYC it's much more a question of green than black vs white.
SOME "White people" do very well, there's an huge population of "white people" in the Bronx and Queens, the few who "make it" go to other boroughs/neighborhoods the others stay or go back to where they came from, which means the Midwest for a large portion of them.
Also, public workers in general have done quite well for themselves and that includes a lot of black people and some latinos. So while I somewhat agree with you, this very race focused take distorts the reality quite a bit.
> this very race focused take distorts the reality quite a bit.
I think you might be - whether intentionally or not - avoiding considering the factual evidence here. The whole point of this map is to be physical evidence to show that there is, based on actual evidence, which you can see on a map, a strong racial bias.
Do some white people also suffer? Yes. Do more people of color suffer than white people? Yes. Here's more proof, to go along with all the other studies done over decades.
SOME "White people" do very well, there's an huge population of "white people" in the Bronx and Queens, the few who "make it" go to other boroughs/neighborhoods the others stay or go back to where they came from, which means the Midwest for a large portion of them.
Also, public workers in general have done quite well for themselves and that includes a lot of black people and some latinos. So while I somewhat agree with you, this very race focused take distorts the reality quite a bit.