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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is clever, but it’s dismissive of the very real problems of inequities built into the system.

I realize white people (it’s white men who came up with this) are tired of all this race talk, already, but systemic racism is a genuine problem. This is another example of thinking it’s OK to be born on third base and think you hit a triple.[/quote]

FYI.  Most white people were not born in third base.[/quote]

Perhaps, but how do you explain the persistent wealth gap between Blacks and Whites in the US? "[b]The net wealth of a typical Black family in America is around one-tenth that of a white family[/b]. A 2018 analysis of U.S. incomes and wealth concluded, “The historical data also reveal that no progress has been made in reducing income and wealth inequalities between black and white households over the past 70 years.”
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[b]Because they were poor, their children stayed poor[/b] It is not like they were once equal and dropped down.  We need to help all the poor.  . It is the same with whites in Appalacia.  They have a small fraction of the wealth of the people in the north east.  While we systematically keep all the poor down, they will turn into essentially a modern slave class.[/quote]

The reason they were poor was because of a horrific practice in the former colonies and then the United States called “slavery”. They didn’t just happen to be poor through no external intervention. Having never been equal in the first place, never been allowed to benefit from generational wealth until the last 160 years— yes even the family farm in Appalachia is generational wealth— it is reasonable to create addition opportunities.[/quote]

There were also hundreds of thousands who came to America through Ellis Island as penniless immigrants in the 1890s-1920s.  And, there were many families who lost everything they had during the Great Depression and other events.  It's rather presumptuous, perhaps even delusional, to go through life assuming every white American grew up in comfort and stability, and had vast generational riches handed to them.[/quote]

white americans weren't lynched, didn't lose the ability to vote, didn't face red-lining, didn't have opportunity stolen from them, etc.

not the same[/quote]

Because you see everything through a selected identity you are truly blind. [/quote]

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