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Old 04-13-2015, 10:02 AM
 
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I'd agree with this... the black family was strong until welfare ripped it apart. I watched a documentary about an infamous housing project and the father of an intact family of 8+ children (!) had to leave them in order for the mom and kids to qualify for housing. The mom and kids moved into the projects and the husband had to stay away. To this day there are disincentives for marriage built into entitlements (even obamacare- I've jokingly suggested to my husband that we get divorced so we could save 6k+ a year).

So it's not really which race, its which gov't policy. There should be marriage incentives built into entitlements.
+1,000

Back in the day, the country was crawling with black CEOs, lawyers, physicians, and so on. Then welfare came and the rest is history. Wait, which country are we talking about?

Mick

 
Old 04-13-2015, 10:15 AM
 
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+1,000

Back in the day, the country was crawling with black CEOs, lawyers, physicians, and so on.
Then welfare came and the rest is history. Wait, which country are we talking about?

Mick
LOL at the bold above.

There are more blacks in all the titles you show above today than have ever been.

In many places, "back in the day" if too many black people became overly successful they were seen as a threat and "uppity" and their communities were destroyed by mobs of crazy white racists. See the Tulsa bombing of "Black Wall Street" in 1921 and various other economic lynchings that occurred in our country in the late 1800s-mid 1900s.

You evidently don't know which country we are talking about either.

And FWIW, both public housing and "welfare" were initially created exclusively for whites, not blacks. You need to learn the history of our nation it seems.
 
Old 04-13-2015, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Cumberland County, NJ
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Just wanted to state ITA with this above, especially the last sentence. It is one of the reasons why whenever I am asked about reparations (I am a black American woman) that I inform people I am for reparations in the form of complete medical care for descendants of slaves, especially mental health coverage as black people in this country have been generationally psychologically harmed to this day IMO. I think a large percent of blacks in this country have PTSD.
I agree as well. The physical scars from slavery are gone but the mental scars still live on.
 
Old 04-13-2015, 11:32 AM
 
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No...that is the fallacy of your argument. To be clear, I am talking about the COLLECTIVE...ie...the aggregated statistics of this demographic.
No you are not. Less than 30% of the black population is poor.
 
Old 04-13-2015, 11:32 AM
 
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I agree as well. The physical scars from slavery are gone but the mental scars still live on.
And white privilege means you cannot empathize.
 
Old 04-13-2015, 11:33 AM
 
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No you are not. Less than 30% of the black population is poor.
And of that population, what % is the direct result of, say, not having a two income household?


If it's anything like the rates for any other racial or ethnic group, there's a very strong correlation between the two factors!
 
Old 04-13-2015, 11:34 AM
 
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And white privilege means you cannot empathize.
And your "black scars" mean you can't see the issues objectively?
 
Old 04-13-2015, 11:35 AM
 
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No you are not. Less than 30% of the black population is poor.
Yes I am. It is the aggregate statistics that one gets the poverty rate for blacks that is juxtaposed with the aggregate statistics that show the poverty rate of whites to get the result that the black rate of poverty is 3 times the rate of whites.

Back to the drawing board for you.
 
Old 04-13-2015, 11:36 AM
 
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And white privilege means you cannot empathize.

HAHAHAHAHAHa. How do you get mental scars from something you never experienced?
 
Old 04-13-2015, 11:36 AM
 
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And your "black scars" mean you can't see the issues objectively?
Which points to the root problem being those that created the scars .
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