>>12193432Oh my god this is the dumbest argument.
Starting in the 1860s white Europeans were given free land through the Homestead acts. Blacks were largely excluded. In the post Civil War period blacks only way to earn money, while whites were given free land, was through sharecropping but as they started building wealth Jim Crow laws were specifically created to prevent them from advancing. In the post WWI era whites were given free home loans through GI bills, blacks were specifically excluded through redlining. In the post WWII era whites were given free education through the GI bill, blacks were specifically excluded.
We gave whites free land, free home loans, and free education. We gave blacks free ghettos and food stamps and told them to fuck off. DUR, WHY CAN'T YOU GET OUT OF POVERTY, WE GAVE YOU ALL THIS FREE STUFF, HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
This allows families to build up wealth to protect against poverty. Every time white parents offer their kids a place to come back to for summer while they are in college, every time their parents co-signed for a car loan, every time they help their kids get a job interview through a friend, they are capitalizing on the wealth given them through decades of institutionalized racism. WE aren't the ones who made this about skin color and bone structure, YOU are.
