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_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN t1_j4ozolk wrote

Reply to comment by fffyhhiurfgghh in New study shows: Black Adults Experienced Early Signs of Brain Aging Faster Than Other Ethnic Minority Groups by PaulHasselbaink

Why do they live in poverty at much higher rates than the rest of the population though?

Edit: Please take your point one step further because the reason for the poverty matters.

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fffyhhiurfgghh t1_j4p03sb wrote

The Jim Crow south, redlining, no gi bill like the rest of the ww2 vets. No access to good education since school funding is tied to property taxes. In which black people used to be prevented from buying. A lot of reasons I’m sure I’m missing too.

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_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN t1_j4p36j8 wrote

100%.

I feel like mentioning “poverty” without mentioning 300 years of forced illiteracy, not being able to own land, having your children sold away from you, indentured servitude after enslavement, reconstruction, lynching, segregated schools, property tax based school funding, redlining, racist loan decisions, or any one of the myriad poverty inducing structures built against Black folks since 1619 fails to state it well enough. You don’t have to cite every point but “poverty” stated as if it’s in a vacuum irks me. And racism will continue as long as we keep it obscured instead of stating it explicitly.

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Commercial_Emu_9921 t1_j4qcm83 wrote

What about other migrants from Asian countries who came to America with nothing? How come they are doing FAR better? What about Jewish people who came straight from the concentration camps? How come they are doing better?

You hypothesis is obviously completely wrong.

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Captain-PlantIt t1_j4rv3tr wrote

Those groups are not being discriminated against the same way. They are not systematically denied housing and jobs.

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tobleachornot t1_j4p2ko9 wrote

Wealth is passed on generationally. Tax and asset laws perpetuate that system. So if you know anything at all about the United States, you can deduce the myriad of reasons why that would create economic disadvantages for black families.

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_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN t1_j4p2rh5 wrote

Oh. Trust and believe I’m aware. I am just trying to get this thread’s OP to go one step further and point to a single structure that perpetuates inequality for Black people — instead of stating “living in poverty” as if it exists in a vacuum.

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