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1. fzeror+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-06-17 00:45:28
We can't solve systematic inequality until we solve the inequality black people face.

You want to broaden the topic but by doing so, you're erasing all nuance and approaches for solving a problem.

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2. pdonis+ki[view] [source] 2020-06-17 03:32:31
>>fzeror+(OP)
> We can't solve systematic inequality until we solve the inequality black people face.

You're looking at it backwards. The inequality black people face is systematic inequality. (I would argue that it's actually as much based on culture and poverty as on race.) But you can't fix it by focusing on the racial aspect of it. You have to focus on the systematic aspect, because that's the root problem.

> You want to broaden the topic but by doing so, you're erasing all nuance and approaches for solving a problem.

We've been trying "all nuance and approaches" based on the racial aspect for decades, if not longer, and it hasn't helped. The systematic problems, if anything, are worse now than they were in the 1960s when the landmark civil rights laws were passed. If those laws, plus the huge structure of regulations, affirmative action, and so on that has grown up around them, hasn't fixed the problem in more than half a century, maybe it's time to consider the possibility that the root problem is something else, like the system as a whole being corrupt, and try to fix that instead.

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3. jacobu+lJ[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-17 08:24:51
>>pdonis+ki
I hear that a lot, were blacks really better off living under Jim Crow than they are today?
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