hhernandez

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by hhernandez 6y ago
Why does that article not address the most dominant cause of the wealth gap, which is broken homes and blacks dropping out of school, not going to college etc? That's an issue of personal choices more than anything else.
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by hhernandez 6y ago
The reservations themselves are responsible for the deplorable state of the people living on them. If the Natives had integrated a few generations ago they would be far better off today.
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by hhernandez 6y ago
Historical injustice is not something that people living today are responsible for. Therefore the "problem" of historical injustice is best solved by people today forgiving the people from the past and moving on with their lives.
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by hhernandez 6y ago
People today are generally not limited by the historical context from which they come. Your parents' individual personalities and ability to raise you does matter, but broader historical context matters very little, unless we try to ma
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by hhernandez 6y ago
What happened in the past, good or bad, is unchangeable. The only way forward is a colorblind approach as building specific policies around race simply encourage further racial division and entrenchment. Preventing racial discrimination (a
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by hhernandez 6y ago
A subset of the studies you mention have in particular looked at illegal drug usage. Why are black people arrested at higher rates than white people if their rates of illegal drug use are the same? Surely it must be discrimination? Not so f
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We Might Get Fooled Again(wsj.com)
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