Race is very easy to focus on without making any structural changes in society. A black man was president. So long as it's the right black man, it doesn't change much.
American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class
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> Wealthy black people are worse off than poor white people.
Citation desperately needed.
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#23> For more than 40 years the court had allowed some positive discrimination
I’m not a fan of the term “positive discrimination” at all. It tries to hide the fact that the “positive” effect to one group is necessarily at the expense of another. Whether it’s positive or negative just depends on which group we’re talking about.
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#24>Surveys show that majorities of African-Americans, Californians, Democrats and Hispanics all oppose the use of race in college admissions (and in other areas).
This was surprising to me.
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#25How do you determine the class of student being admitted?
There's a number of factors that could be used, but skin color is probably not as good as several others.
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#26The Economist, FT and Bloomberg are obsessed with both race and class. Not content with the meager profits of economic reporting on a budget, they have become peddlers of social ressentment for a long while.
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#27lmao @ Economist not crediting the author in the article.
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#28Class is not supposed to be much of anything in America. Success is everything.
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#29In the words of Immortal Technique - Philosophy of Poverty:
"As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie motherfuckers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole".
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#30LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.
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