SURVIVOR'S BIAS

There are Black Americans
who were born with the intelligence
charisma or fortitude
To scale to the upper classes of income
And there are those who lost their way,
slipping off of a foothold
or unfairly kicked off their perch.

But there is also a third class,-
those who worked hard
and with the same diligence as the first,
and who were just never rewarded.
And they know that when there are stories
of black Americans who worked hard
and made it to the top
that those stories are embued
with survivor's bias.

Copyright Š2020 Ashi Shadow -9/27/20.
Could change "to scale" to "who scaled to.."
There's also a bit of "loser's bias" for some, but this poem is on drawing attention to survivor's bias.
Note: embued is a variant of imbued.