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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it is because most rich white families are old wealth and are  top tier school educated and know how to game the system.  Tons of private tutors, test prep, go to an elite college-prep school.  Even if they make say only $250K a year, their parents are making a ton of money and they will see millions once they die.

Rich black parents are fairly new to our country because we basically held them down for centuries, and even decades after the civil rights movement.  They don't come from old school wealth.  They don't have family that are also wealthy. Most aren't top 25 school educated.  They worked their asses off to get where they are and their kids deserve just as much, or more of a chance than your white rich kids playing the game.

I say all this as a white person myself.  I am so sick of comparing races.  We wiped out native Americans, slaved African Americans, and pay South Americans pennies for hard labor.  And then we sit here and cry our white boys aren't getting into the colleges they deserve.  Sickening. [/quote]

+1,000,000

You are all comparing black wealth towards white wealth and trying to say race shouldn't be an issue. Apples and Oranges.  You can't take a group of 100 say making 150K and take 2000 that make average of $500K and call them all the same with $110K+ families.  Old white money is rich and ivy.  They have legacy, money, AND they are white.   [/quote]

People on this site have an extremely skewed view on how many whites are "old money".  That is way over blown.  Within the private school crowd, there are a few such families, but the bulk of the people are either UMC folks who attended elite schools (lots as First Gen or similar) themselves and now prioritize education or immigrants.  Each year since at least the 80s, elite colleges have admitted classes which were/are 30-50% "minority", so legacy status is not limited to whites.  Just stop with the whole white privilege thing here, when most whites are working class or middle class.[/quote]

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