Perhaps the strongest case against the predominance of discrimination as an explanation of economic disparities would be a comparison of blacks in Haiti with blacks in the United States.  Since Haiti became independent two centuries ago, Haitian blacks should be the most prosperous blacks in the hemisphere and American blacks the poorest, if discrimination is the overwhelming factor, but in fact the direct opposite is the case.  It is Haitians who are the poorest and American blacks who are the most prosperous in the hemisphere-- and in the world.  –Thomas Sowell

Sometimes the AP is very descriptive about suspect descriptions and sometimes it is as tight-lipped as a mafia witness.  You know when, don't you?

The ---- is the cancer of human history.  -Susan Sontag