(07-07-2022, 04:34 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: The welfare state created that disparity.

Oh no.  The disparity already existed.  The disparity existed when black people gained citizenship in 1868 and it persists. 
We know this because if you read any pro-segregation essays from the 1950s and early 1960s, they will tell you that the disparity already existed, and they will say this justifies their racism.
The welfare state, starting around 1965, might be making it better or worse, but, the impact is certainly smaller than the impact of redlining, which existed from the beginning but peaked in the late 1930s.

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(07-07-2022, 04:52 PM)Dockerill91 Wrote:

(07-07-2022, 04:34 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: The welfare state created that disparity.

I do actually agree with that, it was an inadvertent consequence that somehow needs to be corrected. 

The point is though, poor people commit crime at a higher % rather than an ethnicity having it hardwired into their brain

Exactly, but these folks don't like staying on the point.

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