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It's very likely the current system's inequalities in the black population are a direct result of actual racist individuals from the past. For example, when you

It's very likely the current system's inequalities in the black population are a direct result of actual racist individuals from the past. For example, when you had a law in the 1950 that said: “No dwelling shall be used or occupied except by members of the Caucasian race, but the employment and maintenance of other than Caucasian domestic servants shall be permitted.” Slavery, redlining, race segregation, displacement, racial slur, racial biases are all real racist practices that were the result of a large number of racist individuals in the past. Maybe most of that is gone at the individual level today, but a lot of the systems were put in place from before and still harbor a legacy from that racist past, such as a black child likely having poorer parents, living in a worse community, thus starting off at a disatvantage in equity and opportunity. That means the inequalities we see generated in the systems today are not the result of randomness the way an asteroid would, but of a racist legacy, and that's why we say it's systemic racism caused by a history of systematic and individual racism. Now, other people, some white as well, similarly suffer from lack of equity and opportunity. The system is similarly unfair to them, and that can be due to other factors, a white child can be born poor, from parents with addiction issues, in a bad neighborhood, and the system similarly won't be as fair to them and make things harder. Those are issues we should also solve, and maybe how we solve systemic racism can solve other forms of systemic issues, in fact that be a great outcome of all this. Still, that doesn't change anything about the fact that some of the disproportionate inequalities in the black population (in the US) is likely due to systemic issues caused by past racism, making systemic racism an issue that still needs solving.

temp8964 6y ago
> It's very likely the current system's inequalities in the black population are a direct result of actual racist individuals from the past. Not necessarily true. The destruction of black families is not a result of slavery or any racist policy. Read: https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-welfare-system https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-wel...
- didibus 6y ago
  The article you link concludes with: > For example, racial differences in marriage rates may be largely due to racial income disparities, which lead to stiffer marriage penalties for black adults. And my argument is that it's very likely the reason for these racial income disparities is the racist legacy of our systems. I see no contradiction, in fact this is supporting evidence to my claim. Systemic racism causes socio-economic inequalities that disproportionately affect blacks. As your article suggest, it seems this even causes issues with marital engagement and family structure.
  - luckylion 6y ago
    > And my argument is that it's very likely the reason for these racial income disparities is the racist legacy of our systems. I see no contradiction, in fact this is supporting evidence to my claim. I find that unlikely, because you see similar results in Germany, and Germany does not share the US' history of slavery. > Systemic racism causes socio-economic inequalities that disproportionately affect blacks. The socio-economic inequalities are just as well explained by cultural differences though, and you don't need a conspiracy that set up a racist system but then decided to hide it very well, and set it up in such a way, that it doesn't affect all Black people, but filters by ethnicity [1]. Poverty doesn't really work as an explanation for delinquency either. Germany has had many Vietnamese immigrants come with literally nothing, not speaking the language etc. A generation later, they're hard to distinguish from the native population with regards to education, have low unemployment and are creating moderate wealth (lots of self-employed/entrepreneurs). Culture is a much better explanation than poverty. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income#By_race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
    - danShumway 6y ago
      There are multiple problems in your argument: > similar results in Germany First, I can't find any stats online that claim marriage rates in Germany among Black communities are identical to marriage rates in the US. Maybe you do have a source, but you need to be more specific if you're going to make claims like this. I also can't find any stats online that claim that wealth inequality in Germany is identical to wealth inequality in America. This would be a really good thing for you to cite, because your whole argument seems to be that there's something inherent in the Black community that means it will make less money no matter where it goes or what the context is. If Germany doesn't have comparable wage gaps to the US, then we don't even need to continue with the rest of your comment. > and Germany does not share the US' history of slavery. Second, can you think of any event that happened in Germany that might have had bad outcomes for Black people? Maybe one that happened during the 1940's? Do you know the date that Germany's current constitution was ratified? How can you possibly say with a straight face that Germany has no history of racism? Germany's history with racism was different from the US, and we'd expect that to manifest in different ways. We don't expect racism in Germany to look identical to racism in the US. But WW2 was recent, my own grandfather fought in WW2. We're barely a full generation away from a Germany that was trying to exterminate different races. > The socio-economic inequalities are just as well explained by cultural differences though It's poor reasoning to assume that Black communities are a monolithic culture with the same beliefs and behaviors everywhere in the world. Are you really saying that German wage gaps were caused by the way Americans halfway across the world raised their kids in the 50s and 60s? It's also kind of interesting that you assume Black culture would be the same across multiple continents, backgrounds, and national origins, but that you don't assume the same of the treatment of Black people or the attitudes of the cultures that surround them. There's a lot of inconsistency here, and you need to decide whether or not you really believe that all countries are homogeneous. Unless you're claiming there's a genetic factor at play, but I'm sure you wouldn't claim that, right? > that it doesn't affect all Black people, but filters by ethnicity Are you trying to say that results that vary greatly depending on ethnicity can't possibly have racial factors at play? The way that people experience racism differs depending on both their origins and where they live. > A generation later, they're hard to distinguish from the native population with regards to education, have low unemployment and are creating moderate wealth I know people like to hold up Germany as an inclusive utopia, but Germany absolutely does have a problem with people being racist to immigrants, and not just Black immigrants. Germany's past with racism is different from America's and the outcomes aren't identical. But this completely rosy view of immigration in Germany that you're pushing just isn't true. If you read actual reports of immigrants to Germany, they do struggle with racism and cultural alienation. > Poverty doesn't really work as an explanation for delinquency either. Finally, you will be hard-pressed to find any serious study about divorce that doesn't mention money as a contributing factor. I don't understand how anyone could claim that poverty doesn't have an effect on family/childhood statistics. You want to talk about conspiracies, then which scenario is more likely? That all of that research is wrong and all of the sociologists are being paid off? Or that there are some additional contributing factors in Germany that you don't understand? ---- So the TLDR is I can't find any stats that confirm what you're saying, even if I could find stats that confirm what you're saying I don't think your logic about how culture works is internally consistent, there are also events in Germany's past that would partially explain wage gaps (assuming your claims about those gaps are true), and Vietnamese and Asian communities do experience racism, including in countries like Germany.

temp8964 6y ago

> It's very likely the current system's inequalities in the black population are a direct result of actual racist individuals from the past. Not necessarily true. The destruction of black families is not a result of slavery or any racist policy. Read: https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-welfare-system https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-wel...

didibus 6y ago
The article you link concludes with: > For example, racial differences in marriage rates may be largely due to racial income disparities, which lead to stiffer marriage penalties for black adults. And my argument is that it's very likely the reason for these racial income disparities is the racist legacy of our systems. I see no contradiction, in fact this is supporting evidence to my claim. Systemic racism causes socio-economic inequalities that disproportionately affect blacks. As your article suggest, it seems this even causes issues with marital engagement and family structure.
- luckylion 6y ago
  > And my argument is that it's very likely the reason for these racial income disparities is the racist legacy of our systems. I see no contradiction, in fact this is supporting evidence to my claim. I find that unlikely, because you see similar results in Germany, and Germany does not share the US' history of slavery. > Systemic racism causes socio-economic inequalities that disproportionately affect blacks. The socio-economic inequalities are just as well explained by cultural differences though, and you don't need a conspiracy that set up a racist system but then decided to hide it very well, and set it up in such a way, that it doesn't affect all Black people, but filters by ethnicity [1]. Poverty doesn't really work as an explanation for delinquency either. Germany has had many Vietnamese immigrants come with literally nothing, not speaking the language etc. A generation later, they're hard to distinguish from the native population with regards to education, have low unemployment and are creating moderate wealth (lots of self-employed/entrepreneurs). Culture is a much better explanation than poverty. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income#By_race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
  - danShumway 6y ago
    There are multiple problems in your argument: > similar results in Germany First, I can't find any stats online that claim marriage rates in Germany among Black communities are identical to marriage rates in the US. Maybe you do have a source, but you need to be more specific if you're going to make claims like this. I also can't find any stats online that claim that wealth inequality in Germany is identical to wealth inequality in America. This would be a really good thing for you to cite, because your whole argument seems to be that there's something inherent in the Black community that means it will make less money no matter where it goes or what the context is. If Germany doesn't have comparable wage gaps to the US, then we don't even need to continue with the rest of your comment. > and Germany does not share the US' history of slavery. Second, can you think of any event that happened in Germany that might have had bad outcomes for Black people? Maybe one that happened during the 1940's? Do you know the date that Germany's current constitution was ratified? How can you possibly say with a straight face that Germany has no history of racism? Germany's history with racism was different from the US, and we'd expect that to manifest in different ways. We don't expect racism in Germany to look identical to racism in the US. But WW2 was recent, my own grandfather fought in WW2. We're barely a full generation away from a Germany that was trying to exterminate different races. > The socio-economic inequalities are just as well explained by cultural differences though It's poor reasoning to assume that Black communities are a monolithic culture with the same beliefs and behaviors everywhere in the world. Are you really saying that German wage gaps were caused by the way Americans halfway across the world raised their kids in the 50s and 60s? It's also kind of interesting that you assume Black culture would be the same across multiple continents, backgrounds, and national origins, but that you don't assume the same of the treatment of Black people or the attitudes of the cultures that surround them. There's a lot of inconsistency here, and you need to decide whether or not you really believe that all countries are homogeneous. Unless you're claiming there's a genetic factor at play, but I'm sure you wouldn't claim that, right? > that it doesn't affect all Black people, but filters by ethnicity Are you trying to say that results that vary greatly depending on ethnicity can't possibly have racial factors at play? The way that people experience racism differs depending on both their origins and where they live. > A generation later, they're hard to distinguish from the native population with regards to education, have low unemployment and are creating moderate wealth I know people like to hold up Germany as an inclusive utopia, but Germany absolutely does have a problem with people being racist to immigrants, and not just Black immigrants. Germany's past with racism is different from America's and the outcomes aren't identical. But this completely rosy view of immigration in Germany that you're pushing just isn't true. If you read actual reports of immigrants to Germany, they do struggle with racism and cultural alienation. > Poverty doesn't really work as an explanation for delinquency either. Finally, you will be hard-pressed to find any serious study about divorce that doesn't mention money as a contributing factor. I don't understand how anyone could claim that poverty doesn't have an effect on family/childhood statistics. You want to talk about conspiracies, then which scenario is more likely? That all of that research is wrong and all of the sociologists are being paid off? Or that there are some additional contributing factors in Germany that you don't understand? ---- So the TLDR is I can't find any stats that confirm what you're saying, even if I could find stats that confirm what you're saying I don't think your logic about how culture works is internally consistent, there are also events in Germany's past that would partially explain wage gaps (assuming your claims about those gaps are true), and Vietnamese and Asian communities do experience racism, including in countries like Germany.