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As a European, you have no idea how bad the history of race is in America and how strongly it still affects people today. Read about redlining and how it-- and
by lozenge 6y ago
As a European, you have no idea how bad the history of race is in America and how strongly it still affects people today.
Read about redlining and how it-- and related policies-- are the main cause for white families' wealth to have gone up over the last 50 years and black families' hasn't. Eg https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...
- bluecalm 6y agoA lot of problems that are attributed to race in US also exist in Europe. Making everything about race is just not accurate and serves to amplify social tension. If something affects poor people more doesn't mean it's about race but you can always make it so if you buy "disproportionately affects minorities" argument.
- hackeraccount 6y agoAmericans talk about race as a proxy for class.