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<p>pmrlcomm, you and I live in the same city IIRC. One that is 43% Black. A city that is over 200 years old, yet of the top 100 businesses in our city, how many Black CEO’s? How many AA law firms? Name the top AA owned business.The community with the wealthiest concentration of AA? The school with the highest concentration of AA performers? Should be relatively easy with such a significant portion of Blacks. But it isn’t is it? It’s far easier to do so with the white populace. When discussing race with my white co workers, I simply ask them to pick up the yellow pages and demonstrate to me the econmic clout blacks possess, and to explain to me why it it isn’t so. Of the few that take on the challenge, none of their rebuttals hold up to critical scrutiny.</p>
<p>It is so easy to dismiss AA policies when one is woefully ignorant of the historical legacy of policies that have created and continue the very platform in which whites benefit. Denied opportunities in education, housing, employment, business, land ownership, and just basic human decency for HUNDREDS of years. And yet we continually bellyache about the relative crumbs that are dispersed to people of color. How sad. You could take Bill Gates and the founder of Oracle, 2 billionaires out of several hundred in this country, and they possess more wealth than all the Blacks, 40 million plus and counting COMBINED. Only a fool would think that was based purely on merit.</p>
<p>Pmrlcomm, the next time you venture to the museum center in our fair city, take a look at the display of the various early contributions by the various ethnic groups in this city. Of course the blacks had the toughest road to hoe. Blacks didn’t even have school here until over a 130 years past the founding of our city and then it was segregated. Their neighborhoods routinely assailed by hooligans. And this in a city north of the Mason-Dixon line and after the civil war. Great background/foundation for buiding wealth, strong families and economic parity in this country, wouldn’t you agree? On with fairness and equality now…</p>