Not letting go heh?
Black culture is a result of being stripped of African culture and having to create one from scratch under the whip of white people.
Is culture force out of oppression really culture?
I wonder if this thread will Go like all the others similar to this, in that a) talk about how poverty is self inflicted and b) a parade of stories from posters telling us how they were born into poverty but then by power of their own bootstraps got a college degree while working 2 full time jobs, raising kids, were still able to put thousands into savings and by the time they were in their mid 30s were completely mortgage and debt free.
It doesnât surprise me. I heard it said that the only way to migrate to Norway is to either be a highly educated professional or be willing to clean toilets. Also, to answer that question we would have to examine whether or not the professional credentials of an immigrant trained in the ME or Africa is considered with the same weight as one from the first world.
If the state did educate us in finance, and it resulted in a reduction in poverty and financial irresponsibility, would you be opposed to it?
Substandard education in a previous generation can have an affect on the current generation.
Access to opportunity, such as: networking and nepotism, after-school programs, employment openings, tutoring services etc
Jim Crow may be gone, but there is some catching up to do to escape the legacy fully. I have full confidence that it will be accomplished in my lifetime.
Some of that is very possible if your tuition is dumb low and a single income can pay for a family of four. You know, like none of us have now.

WuWei:
Who created it?
Who created the environment for it? White slave traders/owners
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White slave traders/owners created the black culture of today? How so?
They stripped my ancestors of their African culture then denied them the good aspects of the American culture. They changed our names, gave us their religion, denied us rights and then blame us when we create a culture in the image of the one they provided.
It rather incredible that despite all of that, black people were able to make a positive impact in this country. It wasnât given to us, we had to fight for it.
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PurpnGold:
They stripped my ancestors of their African culture then denied them the good aspects of the American culture. They changed our names, gave us their religion, denied us rights and then blame us when we create a culture in the image of the one they provided.
Yes. And now what? Get locked up in prison to prove a point? Refuse to succeed? Create an outlaw culture that keeps them in the margin?
I donât think itâs incredible at all. Yes, you had to fight for it. I expect you to. And look at how youâve succeeded. All except for the thug culture that gets romanticized. 11%, itâs too high.
And theyâve got the microphone. They are the face of The Nation on the nightly news. Deal with them.
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Back to @Eagle-Keeper 's question; how do the poverty rates compare from other countries? I looked at Norway already.

TheRedComet:
I would think it depends on exactly how one defines âpoverty.â
One could simply use monetary statistics, but that doesnât tell the whole story, IMO.
Standard of living is more accurate. Americans and West Europeans below the poverty line are basically middle class by Central American standards.
Thatâs a very good point.
Do you know if this holds true for all nations?
White privilege response
White conservatives think its romanticized. It isnât.
No they donât
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PurpnGold:
White privilege response
Perhaps. Or perhaps I believe well and truly.
Of course it is. How laughable to even try to deny it.

PurpnGold:
No they donât
Sure they do. All over every media form there is.
If you took the NFL and NBA combined thereâs probably around 2000 athletes. Assuming everyone of them is a rags to riches story that would only be about 0.0006% of the population via that route.

AngraMainyu:
The poverty level for whites, currently, is around 10%. For blacks itâs about 20%. That 200%* gap can easily be attributed to the programs given almost exclusively to Whites, or at least designed with them in mind, in the 1900s.
please list some of these programs offered to whites, but not blacks
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Nemesis:
I wonder if this thread will Go like all the others similar to this, in that a) talk about how poverty is self inflicted and b) a parade of stories from posters telling us how they were born into poverty but then by power of their own bootstraps got a college degree while working 2 full time jobs, raising kids, were still able to put thousands into savings and by the time they were in their mid 30s were completely mortgage and debt free.
The purpose of this thread is to compare America to other countries and see where we stack up and why. Thatâs what I would like to discuss.
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Youâre going to have to do a couple of countries.