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Originally Posted by pan6467
This is not a race issue. To turn it into one is grossly unjust and shameful. And in fact racist itself. When you turn it into a race issue it only divides people and thus no true solutions benefiting ALL PEOPLE regardless of race, will come out and the inequality of wealth and continued death of a middle class will continue.
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Call this your opinion if you want, but the
fact remains that a greater proportion of economic disparity puts blacks at a disadvantage. There's data on that. A large population of poor in the U.S. happen to be black; you're right, they aren't all black, but many of them are. The data also reveals that fewer whites compared to blacks have the same issues with being poor or impoverished.
In other words, this was not "turned into a race issue," this
is a race issue—it also happens to be a class and wealth issue. To examine these things doesn't in itself divide people...
the people are already divided.
When you compare blacks to whites within the context of wealth and you see this kind of disparity, to say race isn't an issue is at the very least naive. We can't just sing "Kumbaya" to make these facts go away and just move on to making things better for the "brotherhood of man."
Why is it that whites are far more wealthy than blacks? Is it just a fluke?