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In Reply to: $141,000 vs $11,000: that's the wealth inequality between whites and blacks in this country. posted by tinear on December 18, 2014 at 13:54:16:
"In 2011, about one in four American Indians and Alaska Natives1 (26.4 percent) lived in poverty. In contrast, about one in 10 non-Hispanic whites (11 percent) lived in poverty (U.S. Census Bureau 2013). Not surprisingly, the Native American population is a relatively low-wealth population. In 2000, Native Americans’ median wealth was equal to only 8.7 percent of the median wealth among all Americans (Chang 2010, 14). For most Americans, a home is a key source of wealth. Native Americans, however, have a significantly lower homeownership rate than whites, and the homes they do own tend to be worth much less than those of whites (Insight Center for Community Economic Development 2009, 1)."
So, is there something similarly negative about Native-Americans, by dint of their "culture?"
Perhaps, just perhaps, could it be that when people from such different cultures fail to thrive at such an alarming level--- it may have something to do with their history, with the centuries of oppression? Again, it isn't germane to doing something about it.
The reason I didn't want to get into the reasons, as opposed to solutions, is that (as can be seen from those first who responded---some of whom prefer to use racist terms and laugh off concerns as "politically correctness") the discussion then becomes racist very quickly.
The problems of minorities all are similar: in Germany, the Portuguese and Turkish workers are characterized in similar ways to minorities here: lazy, unmotivated, "not like us."
Anyone here ever been to Turkey or Portugal? Suffice to say the opinions of many Germans are racist, having no basis in fact.
Edits: 12/18/14
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Follow Ups
- How many guys here brag on their Native-American heritage or venerate these people? - tinear 15:30:36 12/18/14 (5)
- RE: How many guys here brag on their Native-American heritage or venerate these people? - Inmate51 17:27:00 12/18/14 (0)
- Tinear, give away everything you have and take yourself out - bullethead 15:37:41 12/18/14 (3)
- RE: Tinear, give away everything you have and take yourself out - Inmate51 08:00:57 12/19/14 (1)
- RE: Tinear, give away everything you have and take yourself out - pictureguy 10:21:29 12/21/14 (0)
- Guilty of what? My point is what to do about it, not to "navel gaze" as an idiot remarked--- - tinear 07:52:49 12/19/14 (0)
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