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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
Will, you and I share a lot of the same political ideals. The difference is that I believe it's better to let those with actual experience share their experiences rather than presume that I know their experiences.
Presuming to know the experiences of people whose experiences I will never experience is, in my opinion, patronizing at best and dishonest at worst.
After 8 years spending my days in some of Chicago's poorest, most crime-riddled neighborhoods, I still would never presume to know what their experiences are what their lives are like.
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Were you yourself poor or were you just living amongst them?
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
I'd be curious to know how you became such an expert on the black American in poverty experience. Would you share it with us?
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Expertise isn't needed to understand basic statistics. I know it's a common misconception behind the scenes that I pretend to be an expert on everything, but that's simply not the case.
I'm not shocking anyone with the revelation that black people are statistically more likely to be poor, and I'm not socking anyone with the revelation that schools in poor areas tend to be worse. These are simple concepts to grasp. I doubt you were dumbstruck to read them. Adding on to those facts that the poor are less likely to graduate from high school and get into college, and that marital problems are commonly attributed at least in part to financial difficulties, a picture starts to form. Again, no difficult concepts requiring expertise to comprehend or communicate. Poverty has been linked to criminality, and non-whites are disproportionately represented in our prison systems. Finally, a good and proven way to get out of poverty is with a good education.
So it's obviously a combination of black culture and liberal apologists.