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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8078390" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Averages and distributions.Figure out what percentile a white American would be among other white Americans in terms of those things, and then see what percentile they'd be at among African Americans. White families in America, on average, have something like 10 times the wealth of African American ones, 1.5 times the family income, and are treated vastly differently in the courts. If you were rolling them up as characters, one would have a very different distribution of available backgrounds than others. My home town paper yesterday reported that a black reporter was denied entry someplace because the guard didn't believe his press credential... when a white reporter with the same credential was just let in to the same place. The guard relented when the white reporter vouched for him.The historical reasons that lead to this were legally sanctioned as just fine in the lifetimes of many of our parents (if not some of the people posting on here).  Some of the sizeable number of folks in the US who wish they could still deny employment, housing, or service based on race (if not worse things) are still easily findable on line (including among those running for office).</blockquote>