<p>@repo11, “I should say that I don’t really support one party over the other; they’re both full of bs.” </p>
<p>I couldn’t agree more. </p>
<p>@Cayton, “The flaw in your argument is that you assume that Blacks and other minorities can overcome the forces of poverty and institutional racism by just being determined.” </p>
<p>Agreed. Our economy is down the TTT. Capitalism has created insane social stratification in the USofA. We need to end the war on drugs which is responsible for locking most minorities up. We should strive to fund all public schools on an equal level. </p>
<p>“The reason we even have a middle class today is that government intervention forced businesses to share the fruits of the industrial revolution with their workers.”
IMO, the Industrial revolution increased social stratification because for the first time ever, you had a few people at the top, and everyone else at the bottom. People went from farming and whatnot to having bosses telling them what they need to do. Honestly, education became a platform for teaching kids how to handle working at places such as factories. Education needs to catch up with 2013.</p>