On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 09:32 PM, Steve Sundur wrote:
You may chalk this situation up to pure unadulterated racism,
I chalk these observations up to the long-term impacts of "structural racism."? Please educate yourself on what this is.? The "structural" piece is key here.? We are products of our environment to large degree.? I was raised middle-class, with a familial emphasis on education and work ethic.? I had excellent teachers in a public school, with lots of extra-curricular activities.? I took family vacations and read voraciously.? I lived in a safe neighborhood.? Yes, it was white.? I got in to the schools that I wanted, I eventually obtained a degree, but not until I was 30.? In my 20's I worked a number of minimum-wage jobs, sometimes 2, and spent 4 summers working hard in Alaska in order to put a few thousand in the bank to draw on for the rest of the year.? I finished school because I was tired of making so little money and I wanted more out of life.? I got a professional job through a friend I met in college.? All this speaks to advantage.? My mother's ancestors owned a logging company and built wealth that they passed on to the generations.? This "built wealth" has afforded my mother and her siblings and all her cousins advantages!!!!? Wealth managed well, builds more wealth, and opportunities!!!? Wealth building has been denied to the black community from the get go.? Read up on it.??
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Emily Mae