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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yet, people everywhere seem able to improve generation after generation...except, for some reason, AAs?[/quote]

...and Latinos from Mexico and central America.

American Indians not doing so hot, either.

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Latinos are doing much better than AAs. As are Vietnamese, Indians, Arabs, and any other group you can think of. Regarding Native Americans you have a point. Perhaps both share a similar self- destructive culture?
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The obvious common denominator of the AAs and the Native Americans is the obvious.  Devastating proportions of oppression on our own soil by white America.

Not self-destructive cultures.  Cultures maliciously destructed.
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+1000[/quote]

That was once true but is no longer the case.  For the last several decades and for generations such as my own and my children's, the only people holding anyone back are themselves.  Nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to drop out of school.  Nobody is standing in front of the library not letting people of color inside.  Nobody is barring entrance to the art or science museum.  Go to any office or business in the city and you will find it chock-full of people of every race and ethnicity in every position and role.  Go to any university in the area and you will find it full of people of all races and ethnicities.  The only barriers today are the your own perceived ones - the barriers you put in front of yourself.

Blaming people and holding grudges isn't going to solve anything - in fact, it's only going to continue to cause problems - and frankly, with so many of us being from such diverse backgrounds ourselves, there's hardly even anyone left to hold directly accountable anymore.  My family for example never held slaves or engaged in Jim Crow or segregation, they were immigrants, recent arrivals - as is the case with millions of others, judging and blaming anyone just because they are "white" is deeply misguided and misplaced.  Assuming people in our generation had any special privilege or advantage just because of their skin color is also misguided.  It's pointless to dwell on the past, other than for historic remembrance, learning and avoidance of future problems.  This is 2014, not 1854 or 1954.  It's time to move on.[/quote]

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