Q: Excellent commentary on the response to that "history of black/white relations"!
Thanks, and also thanks for posting the cartoon. The response is understandable and worth a discussion. I hope I was clear in arguing that, if poverty is the real problem, then we can’t ignore (or excuse) the historically (and currently) racist economic system that holds a disproportionate number of people of color in poverty. And it only looks worse for women of color. Perhaps an oversimplification, but it seems unreasonable for the people who have some economic power to tell those who don’t that it’s just poor timing for them; maybe a few generations down the line will acquire an equal power share, but in the meantime they should try fixing the problem (not caused by them) themselves. If we’re the ones with some power, then we should use it to dismantle some of those institutional barriers to equal opportunities.
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jonathan-cunningham said:
EXACTLY! When people respond to criticisms of racism with “well that’s not really a race issue, it’s a poverty issue” I just want to face-palm. They’re the same thing! Wealth is generational, and for several generations Americans exploited blacks.
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