You had me until here. Poverty isn’t racist. Correlation!=causation.
You had me until here. Poverty isn’t racist. Correlation!=causation.
But to state the obvious: distributions of poverty belie the US's long history of racism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
In many places of the world, certain groups were discriminated against because they were richer than average (Jews in Europe, Chinese in SE Asia, Igbos in Nigeria).
But this is irrelevant to the discussion at hand, which is about the US.
Agreed. I’m just tired of everyone shitting on white people. The US is far less racist than many other countries.
White people in America have inherent economic advantages on the whole - not all white people share these advantages but there is a pretty clear correlation and there is causation: Red-lining was an intentionally racist policy that denied an economic opportunity to most African Americans.
Nobody is "shitting on white people," and I'm not even remotely interested in the whataboutism of "someone else is even more racist than us!" We're plenty racist enough to complain about without any frame of reference.