Black vs. White Americans: who faces greater challenges?

[MannyGoldstein]

On average, do black or white Americans face greater challenges in America today?

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	Both the same.
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	White Americans face greater challenges.
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	White Americans face much greater challenges.
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	Black Americans face greater challenges.
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	Black Americans face much greater challenges.
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[Nye Bevan]

1. The poor face greater challenges.

And on average, blacks are poorer than whites.

Therefore, on average, blacks face greater challenges than whites.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. But one could argue - and I will

That blacks are poorer than they'd otherwise be, because of racism.

[XemaSab]

3. Ta Nehisi Coates wrote a LONG article in The Atlantic

in defense of reparations.

He NAILED the argument that black families have been systematically stripped of wealth for generations.

If your grandparents could afford to put your parents through college, you're probably much better off than someone whose grandparents were sharecroppers.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

4. I'd say black with the caveat that there are a lot of variables

Bi-racial/multi-racial is more common and more accepted than it was two generations ago.

I could take you to Miami/Fort Lauderdale, and introduce you to a Haitian, a Jamaican, and a descendent of American Slaves. They are all very black. They all are very culturally different people with different challenges.

Money, as the song goes, changes everything. Ben Carson, Michael Jordan, Herman Cain, and Jay-Z face different challenges than, say for example, Michael Brown's family. E.T.A. Sasha and Malia will face very different challenges than mom & dad.

Where do you think Native Americans fall on the challenge spectrum?

[AnalystInParadise]

5. Depends on the arena

I can think of areas where blacks benefit more than whites and other areas where whites benefit more than blacks.

[JI7]

7. what areas do blacks benefit more than whites ?

[liberalhistorian]

6. To the clueless idiot who chose the

"whites have greater challenges" option, the exit is that way and Stormfront is to the right.

[Javaman]

8. as I wrote on another site...

African-Americans live in a Fascist society.

Whites live in corporate serfdom

and the 1% live in freedom.