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Actually, Africans immigrants doing well in the US would be evidence that there is structural racism. It could be said they're doing well because they bypassed
by afpx 4y ago
Actually, Africans immigrants doing well in the US would be evidence that there is structural racism. It could be said they're doing well because they bypassed it.
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Yeah, being poor in America is rough, and it perpetuates. I grew up poor, and totally get it. It's just not an either-or problem. For many black Americans, they're hit by both.
Is argument that because some African children do well we should ignore the overall stats?
- gruez 4y agoIs that "structural racism" or just "being poor sucks"? There's a difference between the two, because the former implies that it's due to the color of their skin, whereas the latter implies it's due to their socioeconomic status.
- curiousllama 4y agoEconomic disparity is a mechanism through which structural racism works. If we purposefully impoverish black people (e.g., via Jim Crow), the destitution of their kids isn't _just_ an economic problem. And note that this is the literal case: I know a bunch of poor older folks whose parents struggled to get good jobs because of Jim Crow policies.
- cuteboy19 4y agoI know you would be editing to elaborate, but I think you are going dangerously deep into the territory of unfalsifiable theories. African immigrants and their children both do pretty well actually