(06-24-2020, 10:44 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(06-24-2020, 06:30 PM)Sammy Wrote: You can state that Black Lives Don't Matter on your Cell Phone, but you can't back that up on your Cell Phone. Very "Convenient" of you. Black Lives Do Matter ... They Do, stop with the narrative that they don't.

I'm sitting at my [BLEEP] computer. Here, have a rapid-fire:

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012160.pdf
US Dept of Education study. Tl;dr version: white students have traditionally received higher amounts of merit-based scholarship funding, with black college students getting mostly need-based funding. Oddly enough, schools have shifted money away from needs-based scholarships and into merit-based scholarships, disproportionately favoring white students.

I like a lot of what you say, TJ, but you do have some views that are difficult to share.  This is one of them.  Are you in favor of more handouts and less rewards for hard work?  If the needy were not permitted to earn merit-based scholarships, then of course it would be a problem.  I'm white and graduated H.S. with a nice GPA and was a member of NHS but never got a merit-based scholarship because the competition was between me and probably 50,000 other young white adults for open applications, while black-only scholarships were going unclaimed back then.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20...ome-loans/
Pew Center study. Tl;dr, it's easier for a white family to get a home than a black of Hispanic family, by design, and it shows in the huge gap between how many white families own a home and how many minorities do. It doesn't get into redlining, which is definitely still a thing when you get into an area that's gentrifying or full of old white money.

I didn't purchase my own home until I was almost 45 years old, so I've been renting for most of my adult life.  Still tells you nothing of my financial situation, which is why home ownership is a not a very useful parameter to draw conclusions off, IMHO.  There are people living in NYC, DC, & SF renting $4000/mo apartments and I wouldn't consider them "disadvantaged".

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Censu...igure1.pdf
The [BLEEP] Census. I mean, if this doesn't say it all, what does? Not only are black households the lowest earners, but they're the only ones whose earnings are likely to be flat as compared to every other racial group, which is seeing income rise. If care and concern is taken to ensuring that black lives matter, then why is it that black people are the one and only ethnic group in the United States that's seeing their income stay flat, as all other groups see theirs rise at about the same rate?

It sounds like you're saying most jobs in America pay employees based on their skin color, even though EEO statutes are rock-solid Federal law.  I work for the US Postal Service, and my supervisor is asian.  His boss (my manager) is black.  The manager's boss is hispanic.  Out of the probably 200 administrative positions in the city, I'd venture to guess that minorities hold at least 60% of those positions.  Maybe my environment is not the norm, I dunno.  However, every time I have to go to the hospital it sure seems like there are black and asian nurses everywhere.  My dentist is white, but the hygenist is asian.

So, what's holding certain families back?  Maybe culture?  Ingrained work ethics and motivation?  It's not like Costco, Lowes, Amazon, etc. are saying "We'll hire you, but because your skin is darker we'll need to reduce your starting wage by $3/hr."  At the same time, I have a brother who is homeless and refuses to work for a living.  His racial affiliation is earning him no special handouts, either.