> The influence of a totally broken culture is drastically understated in socially acceptable discourse What do you think the "socio" in "socio-economic" refer

> The influence of a totally broken culture is drastically understated in socially acceptable discourse What do you think the "socio" in "socio-economic" refers too? Obviously culture plays into it, the racist treatment of blacks over history didn't just affect financial capital and heritage, it had direct effects on social aspects, restricted access to education, broken family dynamics, cycle of abuse, religious indoctrination, ancestral cultural erasure, and probably contributed directly to a glorification of crime as a means to upward movement, since nothing else seemed to work or be offered to them. All these in turn affects economic outcomes as well, but also economic outcomes have affected those social aspects. Your culture is a result of your environment, and if you take someone and force them into an environment of abuse and discrimination like was the case of afro-americans, whose culture is it really? In my mind, afro-american culture is American culture, this is all our culture. Our culture has put a race at an absolute disadvantage for generations, resulting in a lack of economic and social prosperity for that race today. You can't then go and say, that's their fault, their culture, not mine, when your culture had a direct impact on theirs. So now it's time to say, let's grow our culture to one of healing, inclusion, and reconciliation together. And here's where it matters, the next time someone is caught with possession or selling of drugs, will you choose to incarcerate them for years? Or will you decide to reinvest in their education, rehabilitation and support them for whatever led them there. The next time a budget is voted on, will you vote to build more prisons, or to invest the money in services and safety in communities of color. Will you choose to more heavily invest in education, employment, housing, and health services in the country, or in police funds? And here's where it matters even more, the next time you encounter a black person, will you treat them with an underlying bias that they are probably more violent and crime driven just because of your association of their skin color you've made with your belief in their culture leading to crime? Will you have your guards up, and will you likely favor another race over them due to this?