Quote from: af_newbie on Today at 12:19:38 PM

It just tells me you don't know any East Indian or Asian families.

You are completely ignoring the fact that these racial groups work much harder than anyone else, including the whites.

Racism against blacks is a cop-out. The real reason is that the whole Black communities have been demoralized and demotivated by the gang culture. In many cases, terrorized by Black gangs.

Lack of education and poverty is a real issue.

Put a Black youngster in a poor, immigrant East Indian or Asian family and you will see what would happen.
You will get a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.

Put the same youngster in the 'hood' and he will remain poor, get killed, or become a drug addict.

Blacks need to reform themselves. Only they can help themselves. No one will do it for them.

Taking stuff at the expense of others, or burning down the system as advocated by the BLM is not a solution.

"Groups" don't collectively work. Some individuals work hard and some individuals don't work hard. Race has nothing to do with that. If you owned a business, its apparent that if all else equal, you would show preferential hiring practices towards Asians, giving them more opportunity to benefit from hard work. The mindset you have displayed is one example of how racism works and its ironic that you can show a racist attitude in the same post you are saying racism does not exist.

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In many cases, terrorized by Black gangs.

Who's responsibility is it to stop gangs? If only there was a group of people who everyone could chip in money to fund and entrust to protect ordinary people from gangs...

If only there was a system in place to catch gang members, rehabilitate them and send them back into the world as productive citizens. Instead we have a prison system that operates off of retribution instead of rehabilitation. The prisons are gang factories that take in minor drug offenders and spit out violent criminals because that is the only lifestyle that can preserve physical well-being in our prison system.

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Lack of education

This one should be easy to see as a direct result of racism. Education strongly correlates with parent education and a lot of black people's parents and or grandparents were not legally permitted to attend. Without high levels of education, it becomes more difficult to earn and since education at all levels is tied to income and cost in this country(zip code school zones, high tuition etc), those with less money generally end up with less education.

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poverty is a real issue.

Again, literal racism. There were explicit FHA policies that prevented blacks from buying houses in suburbs at a time when they were affordable for everyone. Only when those home prices had appreciated 5x in value, were blacks legally permitted. This meant that even the blacks who "made it" out of poverty had to give a white family five times as much money as they paid. Even this perpetuated the wealth gap. You should also look into a policy called "redlining"
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20108708?seq=1
So again, it is explicitly racist policies that are responsible for the wealth gap because white familes built wealth by purchasing cheap houses and building equity at a time when blacks were legally prohibited from doing so. The average cost of a home in "Levittowns" went from 90,000 dollars to around 400,000 dollars. That amount of wealth is several times the current wealth gap.