Fact Check: America Is the Best Place in the World to Be a Minority

We’re lectured every day that America is supposedly a living, breathing museum of oppression. According to the Left, minorities here are crushed under the iron heel of “systemic racism,” with no hope of success unless a DEI bureaucrat comes riding in on a rainbow-colored unicorn to save them. But here’s the inconvenient truth that never makes it into the grievance seminars: Statistically, there is no better place in the world to be a minority than the United States of America. Period. End of sentence.

Let’s look at the facts instead of TikTok slogans. Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans in the U.S. enjoy higher average incomes than almost every nation on earth.

“Black Americans’ buying power has grown 2.4 times since 2000 to $2.1 trillion,” read the Diverse Intelligence Series by Nielsen. “With 48 million people, the Black community in the U.S. is young and growing in both size and economic impact.”

And Asian Americans? They’ve managed to achieve the highest median household income of any group in the U.S., $112,800 per year in 2023. Indian American households top even that, with a jaw-dropping $151,200 median. Imagine what they could accomplish if the system weren’t “rigged” against them!

Then there’s life expectancy. African Americans live a decade longer than the global average. Hispanics in the U.S. live longer than white Americans, and far longer than citizens in their countries of origin. If that’s oppression, it’s the kind the rest of the world would kill for. But sure, let’s keep pretending that America is a dystopian wasteland where minorities can’t survive a trip to the grocery store without systemic racism pouncing on them from aisle five.

And let’s not overlook freedom. Where else in the world can minorities not only thrive economically but also criticize the majority culture, the government, the police, the military, basically everyone and everything, without fear of disappearing in the middle of the night? In China, you’re lucky if your family gets your shoes back. In Russia, your choices are prison or “falling out of a window.” In the Middle East, well, let’s just say your identity politics won’t keep you warm when you’re locked up for blasphemy.

Here in America, you can call the country racist from your blue-check Twitter account while sipping a $9 Starbucks latte, and the only consequence is a book tour. What a nightmare, right?

Of course, the activists and professional outrage merchants never want to compare America to anywhere else. Why? Because the comparison makes their whole racket collapse. Minorities in America are starting businesses, buying homes, graduating college, and leading in government and industry. Meanwhile, in much of the world, minorities are treated like disposable extras in a bad movie.

So when someone insists America is uniquely unjust, ask them: Compared to where? Compared to nations where women can’t drive? Compared to China’s Uighur concentration camps? Compared to tribal wars still raging in Africa? Funny how the “systemic oppression” crowd never wants to take that field trip.

Racism Is an Industry

Look, America isn’t perfect. No nation is. But it is, hands down, the best country on earth to be a minority. The numbers prove it, the opportunities prove it, and the millions of people climbing over fences and braving deserts to get here prove it every single day.

So maybe instead of demanding that 205 million people live under a permanent apology tour, the race-baiting class could try something new: gratitude. Grateful for the freedoms that don’t exist anywhere else. Grateful for the prosperity that’s unmatched globally. Grateful for a country where, no matter who you are, you can succeed.

But then again, if they admitted that, they’d have to get real jobs instead of running workshops about how America is awful.

And that’s the one form of oppression they truly can’t handle.

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