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EffortNoNoNo t1_jananm3 wrote

>Certainly, Black people are overrepresented among the poor, but this is due to racism

That's an interesting, sweeping, yet unsupported claim within the paper.

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l4mbch0ps t1_jao53sf wrote

Its not supported because it's widely acknowledged, and irrefutably true.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/200476/us-poverty-rate-by-ethnic-group/

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TriopOfKraken t1_jaobxv9 wrote

Exactly, when white people are poor they deserve it, when black people are poor it's racism. Irrefutable. I mean, haven't you heard the great slam poetry scholarship of the invisible knapsack /u/effortnonono

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l4mbch0ps t1_jaoq6q6 wrote

"Race-based differences in poverty levels aren't because of race!!!"

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kastiveg1 t1_jaqk228 wrote

It being because of race isn't the same as it being because of racism, what are you on?

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l4mbch0ps t1_jarpeo4 wrote

Explain to me how you think that would work.

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kastiveg1 t1_jcbyd2g wrote

Culture. Actual Africans in America, from Africa, and their children, have incomes and education status comparable to whites (more or less a bit depending on from where). So it's definitely culture, unless you want to say that people somehow aren't as racist to people who are even more black than African Americans

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l4mbch0ps t1_jcbyjlz wrote

Ah yah, it's just African American culture to be poor. Sick take.

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