re: Is 13% of the population well represented in the work force?

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I think we’ve made tremendous progress that people miss.

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We have, but there are a couple of reasons people miss that progress.

The first is that they intentionally miss it because it screws with their grievance stance. You can't be outraged about something if it doesn't reach the level of "outrageous" simply by default. Without that level of angst, race-baiters have no grounds for race-baiting. This has been the case for well over a century now.



The other is that they buy into faulty causation rationalities.

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Black people are well represented in every profession.

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Stating that blacks are "well represented" could mean either that those blacks in those professions do excellent work, thus representing blacks well. However, what it usually means is their per capita representation of that profession's workforce should be equal to their per capita representation of the total population. This is the same mistake people make when assuming women are being held back from professions where they represent less than 50% of the workforce.

If there are discrepancies against total population numbers, then the natural default by those types is "this can be caused only by racism" (or sexism, in the case of women). This sophist view completely excludes every other point of reality, especially that of the disappearing black, nuclear family.

Every study ever made shows a stable family life is important in the developmental years of a child, which often carries over to better performances in school. One of the strongest indicators of homelife stability (although not perfect) is having a two-parent household. Black children are not just more likely to be born into single-parent households than children of other races, but are far more likely to be born into single-parent households than they are two-parent households.

Single-parent households tend to have more dysfunctional potential than two-parent households ( LINK).

It's no coincidence then that areas which most often have poor school performance are poor, majority-black areas. If young, poor, black children are more likely to come from dysfunctional single-parent homes then they are more likely to do worse in school (which is what we see, in general). If they are more likely to do worse in school, they are therefore less likely to go into fields where a successful educational background is mandatory (doctors, astronauts, mechanical engineers, etc).

But it's much easier to just be intellectually lazy and say "because racism".