[Jeanette X]

Jews and Chinese between the 1900s and 1940s suffered immense hardships, and the Asian immigrants int he sixties and seventies also had many of the same setbacks. However, these groups eventually pulled themselves up.

And the blacks haven't? Or perhaps you are not familar with the fact that the racial disparity in poverty rates has narrowed and that the black middle class has grown substantially since the Civil Rights era? Or the fact that as of 2004, American blacks are no more likely than American whites to work in the service industry.


But I guess that just isn't enough progress for you, eh? Nope, they have to throw off 400 years of systemic oppression in American society OVERNIGHT, and all the institutional racism holding them back has surely all but vanished in a mere 40 years, right? There can't possibly be any institutional racism left, right?

Right?

Blacks and Mexicans, who were on similar footing to Asian immigrants in the sixties and have not been given anyw orse rights since,

I'm not sure what's more laughable, your grasp or history, or the fact that sentence appears to be eating itself.

Some groups do not advance for whatever reason.

Okay, I'll bite. If society itself isn't to blame, what is holding blacks and Latinos back, your opinion?


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