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Suikoden420 posted...

Your perspective is skewed because you are classifying all white people within the same category and looking at things strictly by race. And the argument you are putting forth is racist.

How much generational wealth do expect a white family with an income <59k to have? Likely nothing a really value.

Some people act as if all white people are rich or come from rich families and its simply not the case.

I am not opposed to also helping poor white people very substantially. I do not believe that all white people are rich or wealthy or have retained significant generational wealth.

My argument isn't focused on white people, it's focused on black people. Black people have had an unfathomable amount of wealth stripped from them and were restricted from accumulating wealth and income. That's had profound effects in terms of housing, education, employment, crime, you name it.

Because of that, I do not believe that helping black people specifically is racist. Yes, racial classifications are not ideal, but history is not ideal and it's a mockery of justice to use a misguided concern for colorblind equality as a reason not to directly improve the material conditions of black people specifically.

So in conclusion, I'm for both redistributing wealth to the poor and working class, regardless of race, even if that disproportionately helps white people, AND I'm in favor of specifically boosting black people in recognition of the deep deep hole that's been dug.

Realistically, both must be done to avoid white backlash. But the issue is that many stand in the way of both because they're concerned that black people will benefit too much.

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