And also access to a functioning justice system.
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I don't have the numbers to prove this on hand, but my suspicion is that Asian-American immigrants post-1965 had sufficient capital...
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That they were able to fund entry into capitalism for a substantial minority of Asian Americans...
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This produces a critical mass who had access to capital, but perhaps not the means or the desire to live outside of an ethnic neighborhood
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So the "capitalist" Asian-American class is able to create middle class jobs in predominantly Asian American neighborhoods/communities.
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By contrast, African-Americans, unlike almost all immigrant groups, neither have capital from "home" not gvmt-provided capital...
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(The latter basically because of redlining.) And those of us who gain access to capital don't produce jobs in majority-black neighborhoods
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Partially because of problem number 2, which is the fact that the American justice system has never, at any point, been reliable effective
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Or trustworthy for Black Americans. This leads not to anarchy (culture, like nature, abhors a vacuum), but to a secondary justice system.
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What we call "gang violence" or "black on black crime" is generally the operation of that secondary system...
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Which enforces contracts, prosecutes violence settles scores and makes justice manifest in a way the police and courts rarely do for blk ppl
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The downside is, that system is way more violent, way more dangerous and causes way more death, because instead of a state monopoly..
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On violence, all actors are (potentially) violent actors. And once you have the money to get away from that, why wouldn't you?
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