Quote (Skinned @ Jun 15 2020 08:08am)
You had both parents, one advantage, as the state didn't kidnap one of them and lock them in a cage, replaced by the state, to encourage state dependence.
In order for wages to be kept low overall there need to be a large, urban, underclass to draw cheap labor on that is disposable. Americans have always used minorities for this.
Until the other half of white america thinks that their lives matter i see no justice no peace.
Black people used to be banned from buying property in my neighborhood. There are blacks here now. That means we've moved forward.
We still get to be born on third base, get the interview, get the loan, it makes a difference.
How many times have you been beat up by the police or had a gun stuck in your face by one? You might be very privileged and not know it
You're describing the impact of "tough on crime" policies that were widely popular in the black community when they were implemented.
Urban blacks are poor and unemployed because the urban communities in which they live are collapsing. There is no industry, the jobs that they traditionally relied on have left, and blacks themselves have been moving out of cities into communities that have lower rates of crime, poverty, and drug use.
You attribute far too much agency to socioeconomic structure. There's no evil capitalist hiding in the shadows conspiring to make blacks poor. Bezos and company have demonstrated clearly enough that they don't need to oppress blacks to become obscenely rich.
Crime rose in the 1980s (the homicide rate at one point doubled); black and white communities simultaneously lobbied for tough on crime and tough on drug policies. Many of those policies have gone on to have a less than optimal impact. But telling people that we need to punish violent crime
less to drive down incarceration rates is a much harder sell than telling them it's racist cops enforcing the will of "the man" who is exploiting blacks for ???. As with the sheep in Animal Farm, it's far easier to just give the people nice sound-bytes and slogans.