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>>sn_mas+(OP)
As an international entrepreneur, I am delighted that large US companies spend their time and attention on inconsequential and toxic identity politics.

More opportunities for us to exploit their weakness, create real value and shape the future

And it goes without saying that the future we create and control will have no place for this drivel

>>sergef+gj
It really is like watching an empire die. Hyperfocused on obscure artificially-inflated issues while basic utilities cease functioning.

>>ceilin+4s
Racial inequality is not an "artificially inflated issue." Studies show that, despite reduction in de jure racism over the past 70 years, Black-white income gaps are large (with Black incomes being 19 percentile points below white incomes in the income distribution), and also persistent. Meanwhile, the incomes of other groups (Latinos, Asians) have or are in the process of converging with those of whites.

So there is a real, devilishly difficult problem here. But it's not going to be solved by telling people to "be less white." That's an insane non-solution to a real problem.

>>rayine+4w
There are fairly massive income gaps within white and black groups as well.

Nigerian Americans have on average 10 % higher incomes than whites.

EDIT: It is 5 per cent, not 10 per cent. I was mistaken. They have 10 % more than an average American household.

Czech Americans have on average 20 % higher incomes than generic whites.

Given that I am a Czech, are we silently running Czech supremacy in the U.S.?

>>inglor+qz
Nigerian Americans are the most highly-educated demographic in the U.S., due at least in part to the filtering effect of immigration.

>>rayine+Wz
So what, you're admitting it's not a race issue but an education issue?

>>alea_i+cB
That depends - are you willing to admit that the education issue is a race issue? Race, income and school quality are highly correlated in the US: poor neighborhood = poor education. The fact that immigrants (who were not poor in the old country - immigration is expensive) bypass low-quality education doesn't mean it's not a race issue, it just means they are not useful as a control group.

Ruby Bridges, the first black person to integrate in the south is only 66 years old.

>>sangno+gI
The data doesn’t fit that theory. Latino immigrants, for example, have historically had low levels of education prior to immigration. But for decades the trend has been for Latino incomes to converge with white incomes over a few generations. During that same time, incomes for Black people and native Americans have not converged at all.

It’s also not just a parental income thing. Whites in the bottom 20% of the income spectrum have much double the income mobility of Black people in the bottom 20%. The structural barriers to Black mobility go well beyond income: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353