There you go again.
Because it is happening.... it must be racism.
No reason WHY its racism. Just, its racism.
I explained it pretty clearly, but I'll be extra-patient, just for you. I pointed out that the discrepencies of income, education, prison rate, etc among the races suggests that racism has an impact on society. That's pretty straight forward. The variable in the descrepancies is race. The primary explanation is racism. There are other variables, ie where people live, their socio-economic factors, but these other variables have been impacted by racism as well. If you can think of some variable that explains the discrepencies between the demographics of the races, other than race, please, I am begging you, tell me what it is.
Let me ask you this. How did we come to have successful blacks if racism is "holdin' da black man dowwwn" ??
Thank you for the elegant dialect joke. That's nice. Now in all seriousness, you must surely know that this anecdotal attempt at refuting my argument is absurd. Are you suggesting that if ANY Black men succeed that there is no oppression of Black men? I believe in the era of slavery, Black people were pretty highly oppressed. You would agree, yes? And yet Fredrick Douglass succeeded as a political leader, orator and author. How could he have possibly have succeeded if he were oppressed? Do you conclude that he was not oppressed?
My answer is that there are many extremely smart, talented and driven Black people in this country who manage to succeed in spite of the many obstacles they face. Also, Black culture and community, all things considered has done a fairly good job of providing strategies for success in an oppressive nation.
There are, in numbers, alot more poor whites in America then there are blacks. Who is "holdin' them down"???
I didn't say that the USA was a great place to be a working class white man. Working class white people are also oppressed. Of course, Black poor and working class people are doubly oppressed, thus the percentages make Black people much more likely to be poor. As a matter of fact, racism against Blacks and other minorities only hurts white working class people by weakening the working class as a whole, drives down their wages and limits their political power. Who is holding down working class whites? The same people holding down all poor and working class people: the ruling class.
Its all about motivation to succeed, holding true to family values, good parenting, and a desire to work hard to achieve goals. Some people have it, some people don't. Not to mention a lack of respect for your fellow man (white black hispanic asian arabic etc) or a lack of respect for the laws could land you in jail, or dead, regardless of your color.
So why is it then that so many Blacks, as you have it, lack the "motivation to succeed, holding true to family values", etc? Please offer an answer without appealing to race or racism. Why does the "some people have it, some people don't" thing also have huge statistical discrepencies based on race? I'm dying to know.