Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPhil
Sigmadiva, read this post and think about your reply to my other post. Your reply made absolutely no sense to me.  |
It's okay. It was about 1 am this morning when I repleid to your post.
Quote:
|
The correlation is not a loose one.
|
I think you are making this a strictly "either/or" argument. To me what you are saying is that Black/ Brown is a direct and automatic indication of poverty and White is a direct and automatic indication of wealth. It is not sooooooo cut and dry like that. Are there a number of minorities who are poor, yes, but there are also some poor whites. Are there a number of whites who are rich, yes, and there are a number of minorities who are rich too. That is why I said a loose correlation. Being Black does not automatically mean you are poor. To me, that is what you are saying.
Quote:
|
So, as I said, people need to stop dancing around the issue. Stop pretending as though this is just a matter of the lucky ones with the money as though that's a coincidence.
|
But it is. We don't usually hear about the lucky ones with money. We only hear about the unlucky ones because they are the ones that make the news. A couple of years ago, a truck was found in SW Texas with dead illegal immigrants in the back. That made news. They were the unlucky ones.
Quote:
|
Put our brains and social consciousness to good use.
|
The average "Joe" American is not going to do this. They should, but they are not.
