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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t deny that the ‘acting white’ slur holds back some kids.  How to stamp out pernicious attitudes like this?[/quote]

how about we stamp out the systematic racism that made "acting white" a thing in the first place? k thanks bye.  [/quote]

How about we stamp out all that paranoia about skin color and race that made systematic racism a thing in the first place?[/quote]

So Jim Crow, sunset towns, redlining and the foreclosure crisis fueled by banks targeting what they described as “mud people” are due to “paranoia”?  You might want to check yourself and learn a little history and current affairs. [/quote]

Is this Nikole Hannah-Jones the race baiter?

1. No one forced anyone to take out those stupid loans that's all on people making dumb financial decisions

2.  The vast majority of people don't receive parental help

3.  It's 2018 in almost all major companies people are judged by performance and if anything some minorities are actually given more opportunities

Quit worrying about race and work hard[/quote]

I’m, I’m the PP you are referring to, and I’m a wealthy white male business owner in my 50s.

1.  I’m certain that you don’t understand much of what you signed when you bought your home.  If I hired lawyers to target your demographic as Wells Fargo did, I could easily “force [you] to take out those stupid loans.”

2.  No one mentione parental help. Freudian slip there?  What did mommy and daddy do for you? In my case, we got the down payment to buy our first rental property as a gift from in-laws, and the CEO of the NYSE-listed company that gave me my first job used to work for my dad (which I found out years later).  That’s how wealth works.  If you look at how middle class Americans accumulate wealth, most of it is through home equity.  Mortgage and insurance redlining and covenants in deeds meant that until relatively recently, this path to accumulating wealth wa totally closed to most black families.  Denying this is silly.

3.  The privately held firm that was my first client when I opened my business used to be owned by a conservative billionaire who was a GOP mega-donor. Until he died, the had virtually no employees of color even on the factory floor.  This is extremely common in privately held companies.

I’ve worked hard enough in my life to be secure enough to admit what a leg up I got from my family and my ethnicity.

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