Unfortunately, until today, the lowest class of society in the US or globally is still occupied by the disenfranchised and marginalized blacks. Though most black NFL players and other athletes are well off financially and generate yearly income exorbitantly more than most working citizens( regardless of race), they represent an extremely small percentage of the overall population. For instance, in the US there is a large disparity in the income between whites and black.
According to Forbes, the wage gap between blacks and whites from 1979 to 2015 grew from 18% to 26%. The Economic Policy Institute contributes the growing earnings inequality primarily to discrimination of blacks in communities that most of the NFL players come from. In other words, the post-racial period we are supposedly living in has only gotten worse for blacks in terms of financial inequity.
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