B.E. article on APhiA Arizona Boycott.

[sigmadiva]

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.

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.

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.

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.