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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
The information I've cited proves that every individual person, black or white, has equal opportunity to be 'not-poor'. All you have to do is do your homework and never make love without the glove.
This shows such a complete lack of consideration of any nuance that exists in the outcome of a given person's 'success' that it suggests you either don't understand the issue beyond the most basic level of complexity or that you're purposely ignoring it.
Correlation does not prove causation. So we don't know that it's staying in school, avoiding teen pregnancy, and being employed that are the prime movers in this equation. There may be other things that contribute to those three variables that in turn lead to poor outcomes. Some of those things may not be down to the individual, for example,the quality of the education system they're in for one. To give a concrete example, if you had gone to a better school, or stayed in school longer than it took to become a whiz at using Excel, you might not have ended up saying such simpleminded things.
Your ignorant, 'A --> B' view of how things work seems to be that the individual has not only the PRIME responsibility for how their life turns out (which I agree with in principle), but the SOLE responsibility (which cannot be true unless you subscribe to genetic -i.e., racist - views, and which as such, I disagree with in principle).
By this logic, because blacks in the US commit a greater number of these life follies than whites, there must be something instrinsically wrong with black people.
And then you wonder why someone challenges your views as racist.
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