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White privilege is quite absurd, but there is absolutely a degree of class privilege. If your parents were rich, you're exceptionally likely to end up rich. If they were poor you're exceptionally likely to end up poor. Changing from one group to another is socioeconomic elasticity. For a variety of reasons, socioeconomic elasticity in the US is literally the lowest in the world among developed nations.
Things like Rosa Parks seem like an eternity ago from most of our perspectives, but in reality it happened in 1955. That was only 61 years ago. Lynching as a semi-regular occurence didn't end until the 1980s - just 35 years ago. So a lot of blacks are coming from families that were around when there was real and overt racism against them further compounding our already very low rates of socioeconomic elasticity. That's going to lead a shitty socioeconomic situation and it's also going to lead towards a lot of anger which is not exactly conducive to becoming a productive member of society.
And black culture is currently almost certainly having a very negative impact on kids who may otherwise lack role models at home. The failed "war on drugs" accomplished little other than putting a ton of black heads of household into prison for years for victimless crimes. And many big name successful blacks reinforce this culture acting as absolutely terrible black role models in sports and music. For every Michael Jordan there's a thousand 50 Cents.
And our economy in general is starting to deteriorate even for qualified individuals. There's never a good time for a bad start, but there are worse times for it and now is probably one of the absolute worst. When people who even follow the white picket fence brochure are ending up with uncertain futures, kids following hoop dreams are just not going to make it.
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[–] rwbj 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
White privilege is quite absurd, but there is absolutely a degree of class privilege. If your parents were rich, you're exceptionally likely to end up rich. If they were poor you're exceptionally likely to end up poor. Changing from one group to another is socioeconomic elasticity. For a variety of reasons, socioeconomic elasticity in the US is literally the lowest in the world among developed nations.
Things like Rosa Parks seem like an eternity ago from most of our perspectives, but in reality it happened in 1955. That was only 61 years ago. Lynching as a semi-regular occurence didn't end until the 1980s - just 35 years ago. So a lot of blacks are coming from families that were around when there was real and overt racism against them further compounding our already very low rates of socioeconomic elasticity. That's going to lead a shitty socioeconomic situation and it's also going to lead towards a lot of anger which is not exactly conducive to becoming a productive member of society.
And black culture is currently almost certainly having a very negative impact on kids who may otherwise lack role models at home. The failed "war on drugs" accomplished little other than putting a ton of black heads of household into prison for years for victimless crimes. And many big name successful blacks reinforce this culture acting as absolutely terrible black role models in sports and music. For every Michael Jordan there's a thousand 50 Cents.
And our economy in general is starting to deteriorate even for qualified individuals. There's never a good time for a bad start, but there are worse times for it and now is probably one of the absolute worst. When people who even follow the white picket fence brochure are ending up with uncertain futures, kids following hoop dreams are just not going to make it.
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[–] l23r ago
And Asians are bad drivers but really good at math and Karate!