The Myth of the "Lazy Nigger"

by Charles MudedeWorking-class blacks are working more, not less. charles mudede
The story that blacks are lazy, that they do not work as hard as whites—which is used to explain the high rate of poverty in that group—has once again proved to be false. This time it's by two researchers, Valerie Wilson and Janelle Jones, at the Economic Policy Institute. Their key finding: "...[T]he average black worker worked 1,805 hours in 2015, an increase of 199 hours, or 12.4 percent from the 1979