I grew up with an Asian name. People had trouble pronouncing it and spelling it and all sorts of assumptions were made about my ability to speak English or do anything that a HP 12C couldn’t do.
I changed my name to one of the top ten most common male names in America and people STILL make all sorts of assumptions about my ability to speak English or do anything that a HP 12C couldn’t do, but now they don’t make those assumptions until they meet me in person and realize I am Asian. But at least they will meet me now.
The good news is that the racists are dying out and everybody, including white people, are getting more creative with names. By the time my kids are grown, they won’t have to pretend to be something they aren’t just to get their resume looked at.
I dunno–when do you suppose slavery will no longer have severe ramifications on wealth redistribution?
If you’d like to stop blaming society’s inequalities on slavery, you should totes support reparations. Otherwise there’s a strong sense of “Forget you, buddy, I got mine.”
"A huge one is Two-Parent Privilege. If you are raised by a father and mother, you enter adulthood with more privileges than anyone else in American society, irrespective of race, ethnicity, or sex. That’s why the poverty rate among two-parent black families is only 7 percent. Compare that witha 22 percent poverty rate among whites in single-parent homes. Obviously the two-parent home is the decisive “privilege.”
Congrats – you’ve solved it! A massive complicated issue – who knew that it was all caused by a single thing? Who knew that mid and late 20th century institutional discriminatory practices like Redlining, decreasing the property values in black neighborhoods and preventing black people from purchasing homes, would have had nothing to do with this? Who knew that discriminatory police practices like those in Ferguson, MO, which functioned more like revenue-gathering ticket-givers rather than upholders of the law, overwhelmingly targeting their black residents, would have had nothing to do with this? Who knew that discriminatory hiring practices, such that resumes with stereotypically black names but the same qualifications get fewer call backs than those with stereotypically white names, would have had nothing to do with this?
Putting forth a list of preferred grievances rather than looking at the big picture isn’t helping.
This is analogous to you claiming that a heart attack patient’s problem is his unhealthy diet while another person claims that it is due to lack of exercise. The truth is that both are issues and that excluding one or the other leaves out the whole picture.
Sure, there is discrimination against black people in America - but that does not exclude the fact that a two-parent household is often healthier for the kids than a single-parent upbringing. Your list of grievances doesn’t negate that claim.
It would be completely bizarre to look at a prison system that incarcerates such huge quantities of black men, and a world in which many black children don’t live with their dads, and not connect the dots.
Do you imagine that single parent families are just some spontaneous phenomenon unconnected to everything else? And how do you know that they’re a cause rather than effect?
Actually, wasn’t African-American illegitimacy less of a problem when discrimination was more intense? Didn’t welfare do more than any other single policy to break up the African-American family?
