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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You realize the word racist is practically meaningless at this point, right?  It's been used so freely as a means to guilt and label and shut down honest discussion that it's worthless. [/quote]

I agree, and I think that's unfortunate because it robs the accusation of the power it needs to confront true evil racism. [/quote]

again please educate yourself about the meaning of racial discrimination and unconscious bias. Racism does not mean white hoods. It means historical, institutional poverty and lack of access to resources, which is very much compounded in a tiny, gentrifying city like DC with massive racial disparities. Most liberal white folks live in a white bubble and don't have to contfront it, but in DC schools become an unavoidable crucible. Hence you see "liberal" white people literally freaking the f out at the idea that their elementary school could be integrated with a black school (true story, happened just this year on the Hill.)[/quote]

Totally agree!!![/quote]

racism means institutional poverty and a lack of access to resources are you kidding me lol

like other posters i'm done here

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Ok so, why do you think black people as a group have less wealth, worst employment prospects, higher infant and maternal mortality, and poorer educational outcomes? Nothing at all to do with race?  [/quote]

yes I don't think it has anything to do with race.  It's 2017 there is a very vibrant African American middle and upper middle class.  There is also a lower/under class.

Why don't you ask some of the middle and upper class blacks what they did differently

There are loads of factors one of the biggest is whether or not the father plays a role in the childs life[/quote]

you live in a fantasy world. even highly educated black people are at a significant disadvantage. [/quote]

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