Zone1 If Blacks Do What Whites Have Done We Will Be Successful

[IM2]

A plethora of data, studies, and societal ills indicate the U.S. has yet to achieve the point of racial equity, given the prevalence of major gaps in economic opportunity, education, income, housing, and wealth that run along racial fault lines.

If racial gaps for Blacks had been closed 20 years ago, U.S. GDP could have benefitted by an estimated $16 trillion. If we close gaps today, the equivalent add to the U.S. economy over the next five years could be $5 trillion of additional GDP, or an average add of 0.35 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth per year and 0.09 percentage points to global GDP growth per year.

 Closing the Black racial wage gap 20 years ago might have provided an additional $2.7 trillion in income available for consumption and investment.

 Improving access to housing credit might have added an additional 770,000 Black homeowners over the last 20 years, with combined sales and expenditures adding another $218 billion to GDP over that time.

 Facilitating increased access to higher education (college, graduate, and vocational schools) for Black students might have bolstered lifetime incomes that in aggregate sums to $90 to $113 billion.

 Providing fair and equitable lending to Black entrepreneurs might have resulted in the creation of an additional $13 trillion in business revenue over the last 20 years. This could have been used for investments in labor, technology, capital equipment, and structures and 6.1 million jobs might have been created per year.

 Closing the wage, housing, education, and business investment racial gaps can help narrow the wealth gap, which is significant for facilitating homeownership, business, and job creation, plus establishing a pipeline for intergenerational wealth accumulation.

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[excalibur]

The Covid lockdown affected most businesses, not just blacks.

You missed the point.

 

[IM2]

At one time blacks were treated by some whites almost as the Jews were treated by the Nazis. Today angry black people shoot themselves in the foot and then blame it on the white man. That way they can bask in the legacy of victimhood and continue to suck up the retributions and guilt handouts from the left. I wonder when they'll quit doing that and finally settle for real equality. It's been there for awhile. Many realize it and just move on. Some do not and reject equality in favor of affirmative action and guilt politics. It's been a long time since corporations with affirmative action policies started hiring people just because they were black. How far does that have to go until THOSE black people realize they're not doing it on their own?? Theyre being hired because they're black, not because they're good. And how can that feel good?? How is that a win??

Wrong. What we see is that some whites still exist who repeat and believe the same junk that was repeated in the 1600', 1700's, 1800's, 1900's and now in 2022.

Things are documented. Why those like you continue trying to gaslight makes no sense.

 

[IM2]

Molly, not every business was impacted by COVID the same way. Check the PPP money.

 

[Riff Raff]

A plethora of data, studies, and societal ills...

In America, rewards and accomplishments are measured by merit, not race. Your racism needs to end.

 

[BothWings]

Wrong. What we see is that some whites still exist who repeat and believe the same junk that was repeated in the 1600', 1700's, 1800's, 1900's and now in 2022.

Things are documented. Why those like you continue trying to gaslight makes no sense.

Ok... But what about everybody else besides "those whites"? And "those blacks"? This ain't no gaslight. You are ignoring a massive number of both whites AND blacks who aren't like the people in your hate book. It's so sad. Until you start invoking violence against me I will continue to show you compassion.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

A plethora of data, studies, and societal ills indicate the U.S. has yet to achieve the point of racial equity, given the prevalence of major gaps in economic opportunity, education, income, housing, and wealth that run along racial fault lines.

If racial gaps for Blacks had been closed 20 years ago, U.S. GDP could have benefitted by an estimated $16 trillion. If we close gaps today, the equivalent add to the U.S. economy over the next five years could be $5 trillion of additional GDP, or an average add of 0.35 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth per year and 0.09 percentage points to global GDP growth per year.

 Closing the Black racial wage gap 20 years ago might have provided an additional $2.7 trillion in income available for consumption and investment.

 Improving access to housing credit might have added an additional 770,000 Black homeowners over the last 20 years, with combined sales and expenditures adding another $218 billion to GDP over that time.

 Facilitating increased access to higher education (college, graduate, and vocational schools) for Black students might have bolstered lifetime incomes that in aggregate sums to $90 to $113 billion.

 Providing fair and equitable lending to Black entrepreneurs might have resulted in the creation of an additional $13 trillion in business revenue over the last 20 years. This could have been used for investments in labor, technology, capital equipment, and structures and 6.1 million jobs might have been created per year.

 Closing the wage, housing, education, and business investment racial gaps can help narrow the wealth gap, which is significant for facilitating homeownership, business, and job creation, plus establishing a pipeline for intergenerational wealth accumulation.

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If racial gaps for Blacks had been closed 20 years ago, U.S. GDP could have benefitted by an estimated $16 trillion.

To do that, blacks would have had to stop being so criminal and learned to read and write.
How was that supposed to happen?

the equivalent add to the U.S. economy over the next five years could be $5 trillion of additional GDP, or an average add of 0.35 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth per year

I love the bad (black?) math. $25 trillion GDP......adding 0.35% a year is $87.5 billion a year, $437.5 billion over 5 years, not $5 trillion. Fucking idiotic liberal math.

 

[MizMolly]

You missed the point.

No, the lockdown affected pretty much everyone. What point was missed?

 

[MizMolly]

Molly, not every business was impacted by COVID the same way. Check the PPP money.

I really did not know that until now. I also didn’t find any valid reason for black business owners to be denied.

 

[IM2]

Ok... But what about everybody else besides "those whites"? And "those blacks"? This ain't no gaslight. You are ignoring a massive number of both whites AND blacks who aren't like the people in your hate book. It's so sad. Until you start invoking violence against me I will continue to show you compassion.

There is no hate book. What you believe is not so.

There are 7 black billionaires in America out of 47 million blacks.
There are 20 million black househols- 400,000 are worth at least 1 million.

That's 2 percent of the black population. You know a few names and conflate. Blacks are 13 percent of the population but have 2.7 percent of the wealth I can keep going. You really have no clue about what you argue. You're just arguing to argue because other who knotw as little as you do try arguing.

The mistake is that you attack blacks as if blacks are the only one with a grievance, that whatever you think the government has done has only been done for blacks and that every othe non white group has sucessfully made it in America except blacks.

All these beliefs are wrong.

In 2019 poverty for blacks was 18 percent, for hispanics, 15 percent, for Native Americans 33 percent and for Asians 4.3 percent. Now before you racists run your mouths about Asians understand that if you take Indians out of the equation, Asian poverty matches black and hispanic with some Asian ethnicities with 25-30 percent poverty

What Drives Native American Poverty?: Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University

Across the U.S., 1 in 3 Native Americans are living in poverty, with a median income of $23,000 a year. Beth Redbird presented her research on what has been driving this poverty rate among Native Americans at a January 29 seminar. It was co-sponsored by the Center for Native American and...

www.ipr.northwestern.edu

Inequalities Persist Despite Decline in Poverty For All Major Race and Hispanic Origin Groups

Black and Hispanic poverty rates reached historic lows of 18.8% and 15.7% respectively in 2019 but inequalities persist.

www.census.gov

DEMOS did a study on the racial wealth gap. It showed that a white family had 20 times the wealth of blacks and 17 times that of hispanics.

Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Meschede, Lars Dietrich, & Thomas Shapiro, Amy Traub, Catherine Ruetschlin, Tamara Draut, The Racial Wealth Gap, Why Policy Matters,
https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/RacialWealthGap_2.pdf

Earnings Disparities by Race and Ethnicity

www.dol.gov

Again, take away the Indians, and Asian income is the same as all other non white groups.

None of these things show the great success of every other race and black failure. It shows that every non white race and the majority of Asians have been stuck because of systemic racism. And if you think blacks are the only ones with a grievance:

Opinion | A Conversation With Native Americans on Race (Published 2017)

Native Americans challenge their invisibility in society.

www.nytimes.com

Hispanics progress against racism but have long way to go

The Spanish arrived from Europe in what would eventually become the United States nearly 500 years ago and began to mix with indigenous people they met and conquered. Native Americans, Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, Caribbean islands, and...

news.unm.edu

Asian-Americans speak up about racism in Asian community, Black Lives Matter

The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked global conversations about racial inequality. The Asian community in the US is now confronted with fighting systemic racism against the Black community, while fighting its own battles against racial discrimination. The Asian “model minority” narrative...

gobserver.net

You guys tell yourselves a tale about how everybody else has made it but blacks. That's a falsehood developed from anti black hatred. Other races of color face the same thing blacks do. We have some Native American brethren here who have called it out as well. So I really think you guys really need to think about what whites in power have REALLY created here.

 

[IM2]

Covid-19 Has Had A Disproportionate Financial Impact On Black Small Businesses

Richard Anderson, 43, experienced Covid-19 not only physically, but also economically. Anderson, a trombone player and owner of Kinfolk Brass Band and Music Group based in New Orleans, tested positive for Covid-19 early in the pandemic. It took him nearly a month before he recovered and had the wind

www.forbes.com

 

[Muhammed]

At one time blacks were treated by some whites almost as the Jews were treated by the Nazis.

"Some whites" = Democrats.

 

[hadit]

So we are told that if blacks do certain things that we will suceed.

1) Waiting until marriage to have children, and then only when at least one of the marriage partners is gainfully employed in a job that allows them to afford them, and

2) A very strong emphasis that education is the key to success - including higher education in a marketable field - that is instilled beginning in elementary school.

Of course, there are other traits that contribute to one’s degree of success - motivation, ability, intelligence, discipline, etc. - but the two above, if followed, practically guarantees that one will become at least lower-middle class, and likely higher.

Are these things relly how whites became sucessful?

Whether it was colonial government or the current republic we have now, the government has provided whites with more than it has ever given to anyone else. This was not because people of color did not take the opportunity because most of these things EXCLUDED non white participation. The handouts/privilege started with this:

In 1618, the Virginia colony passed "the Great Charter of privileges, orders, and laws." Among these laws was a provision that any person who settled in Virginia or paid for the transportation of another person to settle in Virginia would get fifty acres of land per person. “The right to receive fifty acres per person, or per head, was called a headright.” It got even better for colonists as those who “imported” slaves also got fifty acres per slave. The practice was continued by the government of Virginia, for 161 years, ending in 1779. Headrights were not only limited to Virginia. The headright system was used in all the original thirteen colonies. Headrights were the first of many government handouts of free stuff or guarantees providing whites with economic development assistance.

It continued with this:

The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. It says: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other Persons.”

And with this:

The Naturalization Act of 1790 states: “any alien, being a free white person,” could apply for citizenship, so long as they lived in the United States for at least two years and in the state where the application was filed for at least one year. This law allowed “children of citizens of the United States that may be born … out of the limits of the United States shall be considered as natural-born citizens.” Please notice the first seven words. Only whites were entitled to be citizens of this country.

And with this:

One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in this nation’s history was a direct rebuttal to the claim that all men are created equal called Dred Scott v. Sandford. I am not going into all the particulars of this case. The court’s opinion says all you need to know. “A black man has no rights a white man is bound to respect.” The result of Dred Scott v. Sandford was that whites were given rights and status blacks were denied.Or- Affirmative Action.

And with this:

Anti-literacy Laws in the United States Once Prevented Blacks from Getting an Education

(NO OTHER RACE WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO READ)

Passed in 1862, the Homestead Acts gave away 246 million acres of land. To qualify for Homestead land, a person had to be a citizen of the United States, and blacks were not given citizenship until 1866.

And this:

"After the Civil War ended in 1865, some states passed black codes that severely limited the rights of Black people, many of whom had been enslaved. These codes limited what jobs African Americans could hold, and their ability to leave a job once hired. Some states also restricted the kind of property Black people could own. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 weakened the effect of the Black codes by requiring all states to uphold equal protection under the 14th Amendment, particularly by enabling Black men to vote. (U.S. law prevented women of any race from voting in federal elections until 1920.)

During Reconstruction, many Black men participated in politics by voting and by holding office. Reconstruction officially ended in 1877, and southern states then enacted more discriminatory laws. Efforts to enforce white supremacy by legislation increased, and African Americans tried to assert their rights through legal challenges. However, this effort led to a disappointing result in 1896, when the Supreme Court ruled, in Plessy v. Ferguson, that so-called “separate but equal” facilities—including public transport and schools—were constitutional. From this time until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination and segregation were legal and enforceable."

July 9, 2018 was the 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment, which purported to grant African Americans the rights and responsibilities of full citizenship, among other things. American history shows that people who are equal on paper can be unequal in practice—especially with regards to the right to bear arms.

On April 16, 1895, the United States Supreme Court rendered another one of the sorriest decisions in American history. It is known as Plessy vs. Ferguson. From this decision came the principle of separate but equal.

And this:

The National Housing Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934.29 This law created the Federal Housing Administration or the FHA. The National Housing Act is the policy that may have had the most impact on wealth accumulation in modern America.

Between 1934 and 1968, the FHA implemented and put into practice a policy that still negatively impacts communities today.30 The FHA Underwriting Manual set the guidelines real estate agents used to assess home values in American neighborhoods. This manual promoted racist real estate practices. It was done by defending racially restrictive covenants and segregated communities. Due to this manual, the FHA established a neighborhood grading system based purely on false racist perceptions.

Redlining was the name of that grading system. My point here is the FHA was a government agency whose policies specifically provided whites with opportunities to increase wealth through homeownership. The formation of the FHA and its guaranteed loan program only worked to increase white advantage. “Of the $120 billion worth of new housing subsidized by the government between 1934 and 1962, less than 2 percent went to nonwhite families.”

"The racial-exclusion clauses in deeds were not only recommended by the federal government, but in some cases required as a condition of Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration subsidies for the creation of all-white suburbs, like Levittown in New York state. And federal and state courts, in violation of their constitutional obligations, enforced those deed clauses by ordering the eviction of African Americans who bought homes where the deeds barred them from doing so."

And this:

The Social Security Act of 1935 created the Social Security program, state unemployment insurance, and assistance to single women with children.Today, most Americans love the program. However, when the act was signed, the law excluded occupations mainly done by blacks. When President Roosevelt signed the law, approximately two-thirds of the blacks in America were ineligible. For years, most blacks were excluded from social security savings and could not get unemployment.

And this:

Title 4 or IV of the social security act of 1935 provided grants to states as Aid To Dependent Children. Eventually the name of the program was changed to Aid to Families with Dependent Children. This was welfare, folks. Assistance for single moms with children and no daddy at home. In 1935. Blacks were excluded.

And this:

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 created the minimum wage and time and a half overtime pay for working over forty hours a week. Child labor was eliminated by this act. All these were good things, but… In every law that was passed as part of The New Deal, Roosevelt had to compromise with southern representatives to get the votes he needed. In the case of the FLSA, due to pressure from southern congress members, he decided that industries would be excluded from the regulations where the majority of workers were black. Because of this, blacks were paid less than the minimum wage.

And this:

On June 22, 1944, President Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, better known as the G.I. Bill.38 This law provided benefits for veterans returning from World War Two. This act included funds for college tuition, low-cost home loans, and unemployment insurance. As in every other program during this time, southern members of Congress fought the passage of these laws unless there were provisions that limited access to blacks.

Over one million returning black soldiers were unable to get GI benefits. My father was one of those soldiers.


Headrights, Headrights (VA-NOTES)

What was the Headright System? Headright System History & Significance | What was the Headright System? - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

Williams, T. (2000). The Homestead Act: A major asset-building policy in American history (CSD Working Paper No. 00-9). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development. Pg.11 The Homestead Act: A Major Asset-Building Policy in American History
Freedmen's Bureau Act, Freedmen's Bureau Act, March 3, 1865 | The Freedmen's Bureau Online

Anti-literacy Laws in the United States Once Prevented Blacks from Getting an Education - TalkAfricana

talkafricana.com

The Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws

After the United States Civil War, state governments that had been part of the Confederacy tried to limit the voting rights of Black citizens and prevent contact between Black and white citizens in public places.

education.nationalgeographic.org

The Unequal History of African American Gun Rights

When it comes to firearms, some Americans are more equal than others.

www.topic.com

James Chen, National Housing Act, Updated Sep 3, 2019, What Is the National Housing Act?

Alexis C. Madrigal, The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood, The Atlantic, May 22, 2014, The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood

How to spot discrimination in mortgage lending, and what you can do about it

Explore mortgage lending discrimination, its types, how it affects borrowers, and what you can do if you suspect discrimination. Learn about your rights.

www.businessinsider.com

PBS, Race-The Power of An Illusion, Uncle Sam Lends A Hand, Did the Government Racialize Housing and Wealth? RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Go Deeper | PBS

The Social Security Act of 1935, Social Security History

Larry DeWitt, The Decision to Exclude Agricultural and Domestic Workers from the 1935 Social Security Act, Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 4, 2010

Brad Plumer, A second look at Social Security’s racist origins, Washington Post, June 3, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...cond-look-at-social-securitys-racist-origins/

Linda Gordon and Felice Batlan, The Legal History of the Aid to Dependent Children Program, Aid To Dependent Children: The Legal History

Johnathan Grossman, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage, U.S. Department of Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage | U.S. Department of Labor

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill), Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944) Facts - G.I. Bill for Veterans

Erin Blakemore, How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans, How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans, June 21, 2019

Brandon Weber, How African American WWII Veterans Were Scorned By the G.I. Bill, The Progressive, November 10, 2017, How African American WWII Veterans Were Scorned By the G.I. Bill
Sally Kohn, Affirmative Action Has Helped White Women More Than Anyone, Time, JUNE 17, 2013, Affirmative Action Has Helped White Women More Than Anyone.

Fact Sheet: Affirmative Action and What It Means for Women, July 1, 2000, The National Womens Law Center, https://nwlc.org/resources/affirmative-action-and-what-it-means-women/

Tim Wise, Is Sisterhood Conditional?: White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action, September 23, 1998, Is Sisterhood Conditional?: White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action

Victoria M. Massie, White women benefit most from affirmative action — and are among its fiercest opponents, White women benefit most from affirmative action — and are among its fiercest opponents

Do you really want blacks to emulate the actions of "more successful" groups?

Okay, so which African nations that has been run by black Africans for millenia did all this and can now show great success?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I've finally seen the light!! Thanks, IM2

Yes, blacks should not apply themselves towards getting an education, working hard, behaving in a civilized fashion or becoming responsible parents.

All they need to do is act in completely obnoxious ways and bully white people into giving them free shit, instead.

 

[miketx]

1839 The first state (Mississippi) grants women the right to hold property in their own name, with their husbands’ permission.

I never gave her permission to do any of that!

 

[Riff Raff]

Yup. And just think what would happen if whites relent and give some reparations. People like IM2 would be screaming, “I want more! I want more!” And then our elections would turn into who has the best bribes for black voters.

If reparations are to be paid to descendents of citizens that were wronged but are deceased, those are the descendents of property owners who had their legal property taken from them by the government without proper compensation.

The non-citizen African descendents were gifted, by way of changing the Constitution, undeserved citizenship in this country and have been given numerous unconstitutional privileges since, not afforded other citizens.

 

[Riff Raff]

I think IM2 is hogging this forum. Just my opinion.

It's kind of shocking how racist he is.

 

[Lisa558]

It's kind of shocking how racist he is.

….and entitled.

 

[Orangecat]

Are these things relly how whites became sucessful?

Grammar helps a lot.