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Are we still suggesting people “pull themselves up by their bootstraps?”

By now, some of you have probably read about how getting or remaining in the middle class for blacks is much harder. Here are some excerpts from a recent column on race and class in America:

“The ‘rags to riches’ story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the very top.”

“… African Americans born to middle-class or upper-middle-class families are earning slightly less, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than did their parents.”

Read more here.