• RIPSync@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    It seems like accepting lower income people would fix that problem then. On average, college graduates make more than nongraduates. So getting lower income kids admitted will fix that problem.

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      1 year ago

      No, accepting more Black people would fix the problem, since not enough Black people being accepted into colleges is the problem. Not sure why everyone is recommending that their pet problem be fixed instead of the actual problem.

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        1 year ago

        You’re creating a problem by discriminating based on race. If the goal is to break the poverty cycle, which is what it’s been stated as being, then targeting lower income individuals would fix that problem.

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          I’m not creating a problem by discriminating on race; we’re fixing a problem by discriminating on race.

          Discrimination based on race is real and has existed for hundreds of years. Slavery, Jim Crow, reconstruction, red-lining, leaded paint… all of these were targeted by race, not by income. Pretending we can fix the enormous (and on-going) disenfranchisement of Black people by not targeting them is simply naïve.

          My goal here is not to break the poverty cycle, though I obviously want less poverty. My goal (and the goal of affirmative action) is to fix the problem of racial wealth and educational inequality. Those are separate problems from poverty that must be targeted for fixing in exactly the same manner they were targeted in creation – by race.

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              You seem pretty slow, so I’m going to explain this to you one last time:

              To fix the problem of racial wealth inequality, we have to fix the problem of racial wealth inequality. You can’t ignore race to fix problems created by racism.

              Think about that for awhile before you respond again. Hopefully something will sink in.