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[quote=Anonymous]"African American people in the United States were treated very badly in the past* and sometimes that meant that they could not get good jobs or go to school. That was unfair. What that means is that today sometimes African American people don't get fair opportunities in life and sometimes that means more African American people are poorer. That's still not fair and in our family we like to vote for people who we think will make things fairer and work against poverty. But you should also remember that there are lots of African American people who are not poor, too. Like Uncle B who is a lawyer and your teacher Ms P and your doctor (obviously specific to your family)."

That's how I would explain it to my kid. In DC, where I feel like homeless people are disproportionately black (we don't see a lot of white or Hispanic folks panhandling). And also for a kid who has friends who are black and middle class, so has fairly easy models for what that looks like.

*I realize that's an oversimplification, but it's what I've figured out is age appropriate for my kid.[/quote]

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