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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ultimately, there are some problems in the black community that only the black community can fix. And white liberals are sending the message that everything is white people’s fault and that black people don’t have to change anything. This will just result in more of the same and nothing will ever change, even if a bunch of money is thrown at the problems. [/quote]

How can the black community fix the wealth gap/economic inequality on its own? 
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Maybe they can ask Asians how they did it. Maybe a cross-race mentorship program or something. [/quote]
This. Again, it is hard work, education, no drugs, no out of wedlock pregnancies, and delayed gratification. If the black community can do these things, many of their problems can be solved. But they have to be the ones to do it. [/quote]

https://socialequity.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/what-we-get-wrong.pdf

pages 37-41

[i]To suggest that blacks, racialized Latinos and Native Americans should emulate other supposedly successful “minority” groups perpetuates, the false narrative that their asset poverty is due to a lack of hard work, effort, or ambition. [/i]
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