• VagabondSpectre
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    Many of the factors keeping families poor apply to all races (e.g. cycles of poverty, poor economic conditions, etc.) and are keeping white families down too. No-one's presuming the causative factor pertains to race. They are describing that a particular race is affected in a way another is not (an analysis of groups rather than individuals).TheWillowOfDarkness

    But the "another race" IS affected in many and most of the same ways (and that's what you ignore by continuously labeling western society as racist/patriarchal in response to any and every statistical disparity between demographics).

    At any given time there are fewer women in the workforce than there are men. A statistical disparity...

    You would absolutely decry this as a societal state of sexist or patriarchal oppression, but the causal factor behind this reality might be the fact that women need to take time off when they get pregnant. Does the biological reality of female pregnancy which distracts some women from careers mean that we live in a patriarchy? And if so, should we combat this patriarchy by, let's say, laying off a bunch of men (or paying them less) until women are on par with men in terms of career statistics?

    In similar fashion, given that the black demographic is the most economically poor off, (and whites are second only to asians) should we take a certain percentage of the income of all white people and have that go to all black people? Is that what justified reparations sounds like?

    If you want to answer the question of actually how to approach remedies for the problems facing black communities, continuously restating things like "until we recognize our own white privilege and acknowledge the on-going racist subjugation of black and brown bodies we will never jump-start genuine psychological decolonization in the west" doesn't actually get anything done, it just confuses people to no end.

    TL;DR So you say racist oppression is the main contemporary barrier facing black communities... O.K, What are your demands?
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