POC are disproportionately impacted by poverty, which makes it harder for them in many areas of life.
But shouldn't our reaction to this be helping the poor, most of which will be POC, instead of helping POC, of which a minority will be poor?
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Sorry, I think from memory you're actually right. More accurate would be to say they're a disproportionately higher amount compared to the US population
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This suggests that it is mere happenstance that POC are disproportionately impacted by poverty. It is not. If you don't attack the source (racist systems, unequal opportunity, etc.), POC will continue to be disproportionately impacted by poverty. This isn't hard.
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I think we have largely ended the racist systems, and the racial issues we have today are (real and valid!) downstream ripple effects of racist policies in the past.
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Do poor POC actually receive more assistance than poor white people? Genuine question.
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I think so? I have low confidence on this and open to changing my mind, but I'm under the impression there's lots of racially-based aid that isn't available to white people.
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Isn't this due to fatherlessness? I read a study which said if you control for fatherlessness, there's no significant income gap. Or maybe it was crime gap?
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