Black People - Stop Blaming Racism, Take Responsibility

[The Grand Nudger]

Institutionalized poverty, dial back the meter and you'll find that any given race has found themselves on the slavery end of that stick.  The slave trade as generally conceived of today originally blossomed to service the multinational sugar trade (it was the oil of it's day).  They pressed the disadvantaged to work the fields.  The disadvantaged, at that time, were largely west africans.  The descendants of those people have not -significantly- increased either their cultural or economic standing since then within this culture...and in part (at the least..I hope no one argues a part) that's due to continued...institutionalized...poverty.  The driving force for slavery in the first place.  Programs and cultures which disproportionally impoverish a particular race are, point of fact, racist.  So....I don't see the problem with implicating race, even blaming racism (and yes, slavery) for some of ones problems.  It can be (though it isn't always) a legitimate explanation for the circumstances one finds oneself in.  

Sure, sure, people can make different choices.....all hail black exceptionalism!  Pro-tip, where you die isn't very far from where you were born.  The US has about as much upward social mobility as medeival europe.  If you see that everyone around you with a similar ethnic, cultural, and economic background is in largely the same place that probably doesn't have much to do with everyone making the same choices.  Even as a concept for a thought experiment the notion is unworkable.    Why is it that a large demographic, despite mountains of disparate choices....end up in the same socio-economic rut?  If the only solution is to be "different than the rest of them" you've bought into black exceptionalism...but also..more amusingly, you've acknowledged white supremecy...lol.