I don't care what political, cultural. or social values u hold

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It sounds like you're saying the more affluent (rich) neighborhoods had low crime, and the poor neighborhoods had more. Makes sense to me.

It also sounds like you're saying that minorities tended to live disproportionately in the poor neighborhoods, whereas the affluent areas were disproportionately white. Again, makes sense!

In fact historically, white people have deliberately designed their cities to create exactly those conditions. Only whites could purchase property in certain parts (the "good" parts), so minorities could only own homes in the worse neighborhoods. In other words, many cities literally have racism built into the geography itself: it doesn't get more systemic than that [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And look, I'm not even disagreeing with what you're saying about society's messages, because that shit does matter too. But again, it's a drop in the bucket against the actual, systemic racism that does exist in our society. Stuff that goes back generations (eg. when the color of your skin could legally control where you could buy a home) ... but still screws over minorities even today.

No I'm talking about right now; the current state of the US. Right now, intergenerational poverty exists because of stupid choices. That is to say, underclass culture, and especially "black culture", are anti-thetical to success in this country. The absolute best way to escape intergenerational poverty as a black person, is to reject black culture in it's entirety and embrace an individualist mindset that forsakes collectivism, especially collectivist's embrace of excuse-making and victimhood narratives.

The black man (and woman) has never had more opportunity than they do right now, and, in fact has more opportunity than any other racial demograph in the US. Corporations throughout the US are falling all over themselves trying to secure black talent for social virtue signaling points with their conscientent-consumer fanbase, there's just, quite frankly, a complete shortfall of it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]