Racism has cost US economy $16 trillion in 20 years

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  1. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Maybe you can answer the question. As a whole, what positive things can you say about blacks?
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Not even close...
     
  3. Reiver

    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    Your question doesn't make sense to me. Race, and racist hierarchy, goes hand in hand with capitalism.

    I don't deal in race at all. I merely acknowledge that capitalism, and its pawns, do. That you're asking these naive questions only informs me that you do not understand left wing perspective.
     
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    The reality sir us that what was true fifty years ago is not true now.
     
  5. Moriah

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    What would the USA be if it had not stole the land from Native Americans and enslaved Africans to work the land?
    Why does the USA and other countries continue to steal the natural resources from Africa to enrich themselves, while keeping Africa poor?
     
  6. Steve N

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    To answer the first part of your post, if we never came here, the indians would not have cars, medicine, computers, etc, and they'd still be at war with each other and enslaving the losers.

    Regarding the second part of your post, why can't Africans develop their own resources and enrich themselves? But this is what happens when one group of people are more advanced than another group.
     
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    1) And Whites would still be in Europe fighting and killing each other the same way they did in the old days.
    2)What Africans do with their own resources is their business. Nobody has the right to steal their wealth.
     
  8. Steve N

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    If they had wealth, do you think that would change things?
     
  9. Moriah

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    Practice social distancing. Wear a mask while in public. Wash your hands frequently.
    Take care and stay safe. Bye.
     
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    Relax in your chair, Reivs. Have a sip of that capitalism funded Pinot Noir, and thank your lucky stars you were born in a First World democracy which allows you to sail your ship as you see fit, and gives you enough sheckels to avoid eating Government Cheese.
     
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    You conclude correct.

    They absolutely don't want non-whites to have any kind of real self-determination power. You can see that easily in their discriminatory 'tolerance' of specific iterations of black power. Musicians, sports stars, Patsy Politicians, etc .. that's about it. A handful of acceptable (aka, ultimately powerless) voices, checked against the white-agenda-allowed dogma. The last thing they want is the black/brown masses building real power via the quiet ordinary voice of ownership and independence.
     
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    Again, you should be able to show that with evidence. Get going!
     
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    Look at you saying nothing again. Lets try one more time. When, and how, did you decide to reject Marxist analysis into discrimination?
     
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    Why only 16 trillion? Why not 478 Quadrillion? Underestimating the utterly fabricated costs of racism is certainly racist itself. Think bigger or be racist.
     
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    Why would you say that when the right wing economic perspective is built around the very idea that racism creates economic inefficiencies and therefore costs?
     
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    Racism is a myth. Why not use mythical numbers?
     
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    You have made the accusation please supply the proof...
     
  19. garyd

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    Nobody is stealing it.
     
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    And please note it isn't wealth til someone makes something out of it. Until that time it only has the potential to become wealth and let's not forget that all wealth is temporary. Wealth unlike, matter is constantly being created and destroyed.
     
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    To be accurate it was racist white Democrats that did the lynching, long before the racist white Democrats, abetted by white Republicans, forced black males to either move out of the house or lose welfare payments.
     
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    I'll never understand why you folks seem to get solace out of mentioning the racism that lead to lynching, mostly in the south, was once the shame of southern Dems since now it finds a home in the GOP.
     
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    Wealth is temporary? Wow. Somebody better go tell the Duponts, Kennedys, Rockefellers etc. that wealth is only temporary.
     
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    Wealth is stuff. Stuff rusts, corrodes, breaks down wears out etc. It also changes, and accumulates. Things that were worth a very great deal a hundred years ago maybe at the bottom of the land fill today or may not exist at all or may be in an entirely different form. The DuPont's wealth consists of different things today than it did 100 years ago.
     
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    Neither is an achievement. Don't feel bad, no one else can come up with an answer either.
     

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