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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is holding back poor whites from progress? [/quote]

No Affirmative Action 
No scholarship designated solely on your skin color
No privileges in hiring for government jobs that keep quarters for minorities, but not poor whites
No landing programs designated for them like the one for AA[/quote]

I went to county schools in Mississippi in the 70s and most of my classmates were from low/moderate income working families. Most of them have done better than their parents, especially the women who have careers in health, education, and administration. Few of them went to college right away but then went to a local community college or college part-time. The white ones didn’t need affirmative action, they got jobs as soon as they were qualified. Several of them have had great lives after divorcing their first husbands who were controlling. The few of my classmates who have had hard lives have battled addiction or other dysfunctions, either their own or their family members. They didn’t face the kind of housing and job discrimination and government-enforced oppression that black Mississippians have faced. [/quote]

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