These things take time? Slavery has been over for almost 150 years now and there is no legal form of segregation anymore, so where is the progress? Any community with poverty has the problems that some disadvantaged black communities have, but it doesn't stop people from being successful. The notion that employers are still tribal is ridiculous, there will always be some who are pregidious but the majority are fair. I understand what goes on, and how terrible it can be but my ancestors, your ancestors, and many other members of our family came from poverty and moved into the middle class. It's not impossible, and it is not unreachable.
Slavery has been outlawed for a long time, but 'separate but equal' was only overturned 60 years ago. That means there's only 3 or 4 generations between now and when black people were forced to go to worse schools than white people by United States federal law. We've made great strides towards closing the employment and wage gap between white and black people, but it's still definitely there.
Any community with poverty has the problems that some disadvantaged black communities have, but it doesn't stop people from being successful.
Yes it does, the difference being that a much smaller percentage of white people are impoverished than black people. A cursory look at the statistics makes this obvious:
http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/The notion that employers are still tribal is ridiculous, there will always be some who are pregidious but the majority are fair.
Once again, you are basing your argument on unverifiable evidence that you pulled completely out of your ass. A great body of rigorous scientific evidence has been accumulated over the last 40 years regarding workplace discrimination by race and loveual orientation. The overwhelming consensus is that it's still a major problem, even if it's seemingly subconscious at times.
I'll even provide you with a bibliography of contemporary sources showing this if you aren't willing to research it yourself.
I understand what goes on, and how terrible it can be but my ancestors, your ancestors, and many other members of our family came from poverty and moved into the middle class.
No, pretty much every economic benefit I have dates back to some advantages my ancestors had. My grandmother married my grandfather, an Anglo-Saxon. His ancestry sources back to some of the original English colonies, which were also the colonies that reaped immense economic success from the suffering and enslavement of the millions of ancestors of modern day African-Americans. I don't know your ancestry well enough, but mine seems to support pretty much exactly what I said about how impoverished families produce impoverished offspring, and wealthy families produce wealthy offspring.
After all, America is a melting pot (well at least that was what it was suppose to be), in which all people unite as one.
I think your understanding of modern American society is warped by stuffty history textbooks that whitewash the lasting effects of poverty. The United States is not a land of equal opportunity by any means.
