If blacks want more family wealth, they should invest. They have the per capita income as a group comparable to White Canadians, so this shouldn't be that hard for them.
although they would be doing better if they weren't brought here as slaves in the first place.
Except most of the gyms are whites only.
Bet education in Canada is cheaper than America too.
Do you have evidence that the descendants of people who owned slaves 150 years ago are wealthier than the descendants of white people who didn’t own slaves, and if so, where that gap came from?
The argument is not that white slave owners became wealthy all because they owned slaves and now those slave owners have to give that wealth back. The argument is that black people were systematically kept from being able to attain their own wealth for centuries, and then unleashed with nothing into a society where wealth begets wealth.
I really don't understand what is so complicated about this. Do you believe a child born into poverty is more or less likely to remain in poverty thoughout their life? All you need is to understand the fact that the answer is yes. From there it's just basic math.
In probability there are always outliers, but based on the law of large numbers it's a statical impossibility that an entire race of people systematically kept in poverty will within 150 years catch up to the race that started off literally owning everything, so to say that you think it's just coincidence is absurd.
Do you believe a child born into a family that is uneducated, is more or less likely to grow up educated?In my personal experience, the vast majority of kids were going to college, whether their parents were educated or not.
Do you believe a child born into poverty is more or less likely to live in poverty as an adult?Yes; but their skin color isn't a factor in this.
You can't expect the child of a slave to learn anything about the society they are trying to navigate through.Black people despite being descendants of slaves can learn just fine.
Of course, so without intervention we would certainly expect black outcomes to lag white outcomes, at least for a few generations.
My problem is there actually has been significant intervention for quite a while now (affirmative action, great society programs, special minority only scholarships) but things aren’t getting better.
That’s not something that is fixed through reparations or whatever but through rebuilding communities and a healthy economy.
In fact all this racial politics stuff just makes the situation worse by dividing workers and obfuscating the real issue
Which is part of the problem. Why are white people so sensitive to this conversation? I mean look at the freak out over critical race theory...
We aren’t. Not more than anyone else would be, and probably less. Most cultures (example: the Japanese) whitewash their historical crimes whereas Europeans seem to self flagellate these days.
This is extremely true. I have agreed with the Right Wing on this for a while, non-Caucasian racism is far more masked and even entire history rewritten with a huge bias inside of such nations.The 'supremacy complex' because of where one came from is there in all races and cultures but is only weak and diluted in either Caucasian cultures or cultures that were subject to their imperial wrath (such as ex-commonwealth nations where people are sometimes not super proud of their nation and its history).
What do you think should be done? I consider you to be among the most rational and fair minded people who I’ve seen argue strongly for this sort of thing so what would your plan be?
