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by felix_nagaand 2794 days ago
You do not seem to be aware of just how bad poverty and inequality has gotten for everyone.

https://www.prb.org/us-inequality-poverty/

Yes, black Americans do have worse outcomes than white Americans.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/psmag.com/.amp/economics/four-f...

However, we should not be splitting hairs over who has it worse or bickering about how to make poor dumb white families pay for the injustices of systemic racism that they had no hand in creating or maintaining.

There are a lot of poor people in America and they all deserve our help. If we continue to pick and choose who we help based on what minority sub-group makes the most noise we will only accomplish division. If the top 1% can increase their wealth by 20%in a year then we can also improve schools, health care, and access to affordable financing for all poor people. Instead we get divisive platitudes that alienate poor whites and never actually help poor blacks.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/02/concen...

We should start by funding public schools equally by head count instead of from property taxes.

https://www.thenation.com/article/how-unequal-school-funding...

Then we should probably end the inane war on drugs, fix healthcare, free the slaves filling prisons that do not pose a danger to society, overturn CU, and build some affordable damn houses.