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Originally Posted by bows&toes
Your replies are always so predictable, you always start out name-calling when you don't have any counter-argument. Then you convince yourself through your own post that it is us who are ignorant and we must be uninformed.
Maybe you should attempt reading comprehension considering both me and shiner have pointed out to you that it only takes one generation to turn a family from poor to rich. Maybe if you didn't give people a scapegoat with your rhetoric, they may not have a constant 3rd party to blame for their laziness, wrong decisions, etc. Maybe if people didn't have a constant scapegoat, they would actually take on their own responsibility and work their way out of poverty. This is what my dad did when he moved here from Europe before I was born. He worked his way up from having a minimum wage job to being a VP of a large manufacturing company and owning a successful real estate investment business in less than 15 years. He did this because he had no choice, he had nobody to blame for his failures but himself. He picked himself up by the bootstrap and did what he had to for his family to live comfortably. So don't tell me this crap about "it takes many generations" thats an excuse and a load of bullshit.
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actually i did counter argue, but you're too slow to catch it. you are ignorant and uninformed, not trying to convince anyone...just the truth. your small little personal experience is irrelevant and useless to the conversation. step it up.
and like i said, twit..it takes WAY more than one generation to change an entire group when said entire group started out with nothing in the first place. are you too slow for that logic? whites had the power, money, and influence and people of color had none of that at the height of the civil rights movement. now you think after 40 some years, everything is supposed to change? i mean seriously, you can't be this stupid.
the number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, PHD's, hell even millionaires among people of color has increased and is possibly highest it's ever been. but yet and still, there is a long way to go...and (lemme repeat this again for the slow) it takes WAY more than one generation to turn around millions of people when said millions started off with nothing in comparison to whites.
your little story of triumph means little, because yet and still...he's still an exception even among white people (even those still benefitting from white privelege). so i'd appreciate it if you'd use a bit of common sense and not try and apply your exception to the rule.