Racism has cost US economy $16 trillion in 20 years

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  1. ToddWB

    ToddWB Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    OP is probably true.. tho' not in the way he thinks..

    if we'd never embarked on the "Great Society" black males would have stayed with their families.. continued attending church and basically have stayed on the path they were on before the "Great Society"
     
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    My data is not skewed. Neither is my population %.

    https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/table-43
     
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  3. FatBack

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    You are so full of wit....so very much witty.
     
  4. FatBack

    FatBack Well-Known Member

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    Want to have fun? Go look at his recent post on any given day.
     
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    Oh and here is the population % source:

    https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219

    13.4%
     
  6. Doofenshmirtz

    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    100% false. Name one thing a person of color cannot achieve due to racism.
     
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    POC have FAR more privileges than whites do
     
  8. Reiver

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    Can you refer to one empirical study that concludes that inequality of opportunity doesn't exist? I look forward to your choice.
     
  9. Doofenshmirtz

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    Answer my question first.
     
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    You said it was 100% false. That must mean you have evidence. Get citing!
     
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    It is 100% false. There is nothing a person of color cannot accomplish due to racism. Maybe one day, a person of color will hold the highest office!
     
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    Just one piece of evidence in support! This should be easy. There are plenty of studies into discrimination and inequality of opportunity. Reference just one!
     
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    Obama.
     
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    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    So you can't refer to one piece of evidence? Don't you feel kinda silly? No need to answer. I appreciate right wing grunt doesn't do evidence. God bless!
     
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    There is nothing a person of color cannot accomplish due to racism. I gave you the example you asked for. I am not a right winger or a grunt and you can't name one single thing a person of color cannot accomplish due to racism.
     
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    Racist assumption.
     
  17. Denizen

    Denizen Well-Known Member

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    1. Being Mrs. Trump, either gender; or
    2. Being Mrs. Pence, 'Mother' wouldn't like it.
    Please don't thank me.
     
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    Of course, but that doesn't make it false. Do we have to tolerate lies to be antiracist?
     
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    What they saved in paying blacks less they spent in paying white men more so it all evened out.
     
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    So something that exists only in the minds of leftist academics has cost us 800 billion a year? I call bs
     
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    Yeah, that's what you'd think .. if you were you.

    In the real world where no cares about any colour but the colour of money, businesses fail because of poor business models, inadequate planning, insufficient working capital, etc etc.
     
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    Let's not get crazy here. We all know the Big Man has ruined many a small business since those two grifters from Calingfornica invented him back in the sixties.
     
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    They were, late last century. They were making good inroads into the middle classes ... but your Dems didn't like that. Had to find a way to put them back down, where they couldn't usurp the white elite (and they were heading that way by 1999).
     
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    Most of that money was lost because of the war on drugs. We spent years throwing people in prison primarily minirities for minor drug offenses like simple possession, and we spent billions each year paying to keep them in prison.

    And the war on drugs was racists from the start. That is why "black" drugs like crack cocaine are treated as worse than drugs used primarily by white people like powder cocaine, despite studies showing the two are the same.
    As ND meth, despite being one of the worst drugs isn't treated on that same level.
     
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    You can thank Tip O'Neil and Joe Biden for that.
     

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