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[quote=Anonymous][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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Thanks for the link. The article simply make excuses by pointing to anecdotal "advantages" held by Asian immigrants, and sites cherry-picked studies that confirm the conclusion, without explaining why African Americans can't obtain those same things. For example, education is given as an example, and the study claims "black families hold a longstanding commitment toward their children’s
education." But this article does not quantify this commitment, nor does it compare the level of commitment with Asian immigrants. Primary and Secondary education is free in the united states, and funding for schools with higher African American student attendance in Fairfax County, for example, is no less than that for schools with higher Asian student attendance.  Why are Asians under-represented in pop music? Why are Asians underrepresented in professional sports? Is it because of systemic racism, or is it that Asians do not make efforts in these areas as much as African Americans? [/quote]

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