Savant's Words

There are far more Black Americans than you think who are also intrigued about African cultures, and have informed themselves. But it can be said about Americans in general that they're pragmatic, anti-intellectual, and parochial people. Americans generally know less about the outside world than do people in other industrial societies, and could generally care less. Whoever takes an interest in African or other non-American cultures really do belong to a minority, regardless of whether they're white, black, Latino or what have you.

-Savant

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 Even some of his facts are skewed. The number of poor whites certainly exceed the number of poor Blacks. Given that whites are 75% of the population the number of poor whites might even exceed the entire Black population. But the PROPORTION of poor Blacks is greater than the proportion of poor whites. A far smaller proportion of whites are. But those who are exhibit more or less the same kinds of problems (crime included) as poor Blacks or Hispanics. The primary difference between the old south and the new, is that the New Jim Crow has begun replacing the old. There has been tons of research on the persistence of racism in the post-1960s era by various human rights groups, including Amnesty International, and various groups of scholars. If you were interested you'd know about this. As for racism you display that repeatedly in your own posts even while denying it.

 -Savant

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