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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just check it.
Know why? Because affirmative action in college and grad school and hiring quota programs at white collar employers are always for the right half of the barbell. The intact families, the Hs graduates who work hard, the working parents.

America, and its Black community, still don’t know what to do with the left half of its barbell.  The crime, the missing fathers, the welfare, the schooling issues, [/quote]

You should pick up a book.

The economic situation of the Black community in America is pretty much entirely due to aggressive govoernment action.  For example, during and after WWII, every single government agency with any involvement in housing, and there was a lot of involvement due to a wartime and post war housing crisis (WPA, CCA, VA, FHA, etc.) aggressively pursued segregation policies that ensured that Black wartime and post war workers who worked in the same positions as white workers were not able to buy homes in expaning suburbs and were instead packed into poorly constructed (often by government) apartments or makeshift homes in unincorporated areas.  Blacks couldn't affort well constructed homes because insurance companies -- as a matter of explicit policy -- wouldn't insure them and banks, savings and loans and mortgage companies wouldn't lend to them.  Companies that did try to lend to or insure Black families (and real estate agents that tried to sell to them) were sanctioned.  Again, as a matter of explicit government and state board policy nationwide -- not just in the south.  If you look at the origins of, for example, Palo Alto and East Palo Alto in California, the horrible disparities there were all about government housing policy.  Thus Blacks were shut out -- by explicit Federal, state and local government policy -- from the single biggest source of wealth accumulation in postwar America.  So, for example, when my father in law died, my wife inherited hundreds of thousands of dollars, much of it from her parents's home equity.  When the parents of a Black friend from the same town died, he sold their house for, if I recall correctly, $25,000.  Both families had worked thier whole lives at simiar jobs, but by virtue of the location of their home, one family left hundreds of thousands to their kids and the other next to nothing.

Add to that explicit federal government policy to criminalize and incarcerate black men as a response to the civil rights movement, and you get the situation that we have today.

PP is doing the work of racism by spouting a nonsense, ahistorical narrative.[/quote]

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