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| Nonnel:
--- Quote from: bloody jumper on September 02, 2017, 10:46:27 PM ---And I'm saying historical racism can only reach so far until it fails. It's been over 50 years, there would have been at least SOME bounce-back. --- End quote --- And there has been some. They're not slaves and they're not in shacks or single room stuffholes for the most part. There's still a huge disparity between white and black, see the income list posted earlier, and if the poverty cycle is not the reason then please explain to me what is. |
| PhantOS:
--- Quote from: bloody jumper on September 02, 2017, 10:46:27 PM ---And I'm saying historical racism can only reach so far until it fails. It's been over 50 years, there would have been at least SOME bounce-back. --- End quote --- there have been bouncebacks since then but it's not as fast as you are convinced it is. it takes several generations for stuff like that to heal. poverty is literally quicksand. it has negative emotional effects on parents, which they then accidentally project onto the youth, which puts them in an unhealthy lifestyle. if that's not enough, if you're poor you can't get loans easily, you can't pay off small fines so easily which forgets up your record permanently, and if you're say homeless or at the very bottom of the poverty line, there's physically no way to ever leave it, unless you win the lottery or someone agrees to take you in, which has just as unlikely odds |
| Red Spy:
can we all step back and wonder how a thread about a nurse being arrested turned into a race debate |
| PhantOS:
blame tony |
| Red Spy:
forget you tony |
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