Top 5 Issues Facing The Black Community

[Olorun22]

The man is correct and fuck you if you cannot see it

black people want to end white supremacy but don't want to stop killing each other

black people want to be wealthier but keep voting for people with policies that make them poorer

black people want stronger families but keep having children out of wedlock

In essence black don't want to do what is necessary to stop white supremacy all niggas want to do is cry and complain and bitch and moan about racism but white people don't really care about your tears they just throw us a few crumbs to get us to shut the fuck up a little.

No, he isn't right and you do sound like a white boy . you keep saying your not white but idk. All his talking point are what white people say and white people are dishonest as fuck.

You telling black people we're voting wrong but in reality we don't have any good option they both won't and haven't did shit for black people. What is our alternative? Trump isn't going to be that answer and you know that shit.

The correct option is to vote for who aligns with your interests AND THE INTERESTS of your community. my whole argument and the guy is the video arguments rests on the fact that the people and ideology that we have been voting for in these last 40-50 years has not improved the black situation enough. In fact in many ways we have been going down into a pit of degeneracy. The man in the video is right, we have been saying the man in the video is wrong for 40 years and look at where we are now??? still not able to compete with the other races in america. STOP FUCKING BLAMING EXTERNAL FACTORS AND LOOK INWARD. This whole thing were if you don't subscribe to the popular black viewpoint then you must be white nonsense needs to stop.

I am not a leftist ideological slave, my mind is free you should get off the plantation brother it's much nicer outside

This is not about fucking trump. Trump is not a conservative or a liberal TRUMP IS TRUMP.

I don't know any black people who thinks like this at all and i'm from the ghetto all he did was say white people shit.

You agreeing with white racist point of view doesn't sit well with black people who try to make it in america.

You talk about 40 years voting like voting for reagan was somehow going to stop him and the cia from putting drugs in the hood. What about bush? what the fuck was he going to do? You think black people magical nigga you think we can make the impossible happen.

White people do what the fuck they want to do and this shit he talking about isn't or wasn't going to change that.

 

[Olorun22]

Lol, and? C'mon, we've all heard that "argument" before. I just find it weak for, imo, obvious reasons. It's old hat.

so specifically black people are affected by religion wtf

White people=Christianity

Arabs= Islam

Asian= Buddha

Indians=Hinduism

Black people=Islam and Christianity

How can people built with two different ideology that goes against each other?

Atheists, in general, are more likely to be male and younger than the overall population; 68% are men, and the median age of atheist adults in the U.S. is 34 (compared with 46 for all U.S. adults). Atheists also are more likely to be white (78% are Caucasian

This is from a pew research

Whites are christian/catholic/agnostic/athiest etc so you're wrong on whites

India you're very wrong India is very mixed with yes majority Hindu but a very very large Muslim population and the rest christian or Presbyterian

You're very very very wrong on your religion stance.

Who do you think you're fooling? Really you're going to sit up here and act like europe america's isn't white christian majority lol and catholic is christianity they go by the holy bible

 

[zzombie]

The man is correct and fuck you if you cannot see it

black people want to end white supremacy but don't want to stop killing each other

black people want to be wealthier but keep voting for people with policies that make them poorer

black people want stronger families but keep having children out of wedlock

In essence black don't want to do what is necessary to stop white supremacy all niggas want to do is cry and complain and bitch and moan about racism but white people don't really care about your tears they just throw us a few crumbs to get us to shut the fuck up a little.

No, he isn't right and you do sound like a white boy . you keep saying your not white but idk. All his talking point are what white people say and white people are dishonest as fuck.

You telling black people we're voting wrong but in reality we don't have any good option they both won't and haven't did shit for black people. What is our alternative? Trump isn't going to be that answer and you know that shit.

The correct option is to vote for who aligns with your interests AND THE INTERESTS of your community. my whole argument and the guy is the video arguments rests on the fact that the people and ideology that we have been voting for in these last 40-50 years has not improved the black situation enough. In fact in many ways we have been going down into a pit of degeneracy. The man in the video is right, we have been saying the man in the video is wrong for 40 years and look at where we are now??? still not able to compete with the other races in america. STOP FUCKING BLAMING EXTERNAL FACTORS AND LOOK INWARD. This whole thing were if you don't subscribe to the popular black viewpoint then you must be white nonsense needs to stop.

I am not a leftist ideological slave, my mind is free you should get off the plantation brother it's much nicer outside

This is not about fucking trump. Trump is not a conservative or a liberal TRUMP IS TRUMP.

I don't know any black people who thinks like this at all and i'm from the ghetto all he did was say white people shit.

You agreeing with white racist point of view doesn't sit well with black people who try to make it in america.

You talk about 40 years voting like voting for reagan was somehow going to stop him and the cia from putting drugs in the hood. What about bush? what the fuck was he going to do? You think black people magical nigga you think we can make the impossible happen.

White people do what the fuck they want to do and this shit he talking about isn't or wasn't going to change that.

Why have you accepted the narrative that what the man said was racist?? NOTHING he said was racist. You don't know or know of any black people who do crime ?? or know any black baby mamas?? you don't know any black people who only vote democrat no matter what??? is that what you are saying... STOP LYING.

cry me a fucking river about reagan and bush putting drugs in the black community, did they force anyone to snort or inject themselves?? No. ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS in some degree would still exist no matter what we do however by foolishly indulging these negative behavior we exacerbate or problems

 

[zzombie]

@jono

You could not be more fucking wrong we live under capitalism everything is a competition... You won't be able to self actualize shit living in poverty.

If you follow the basics you shouldn't be in poverty. Niggas can't jump from poverty to prosperity overnight.

If you settle for just good enough you will only make yourself and your children vulnerable to the people with power.

 

[zzombie]

Lol, and? C'mon, we've all heard that "argument" before. I just find it weak for, imo, obvious reasons. It's old hat.

so specifically black people are affected by religion wtf

White people=Christianity

Arabs= Islam

Asian= Buddha

Indians=Hinduism

Black people=Islam and Christianity

How can people built with two different ideology that goes against each other?

Atheists, in general, are more likely to be male and younger than the overall population; 68% are men, and the median age of atheist adults in the U.S. is 34 (compared with 46 for all U.S. adults). Atheists also are more likely to be white (78% are Caucasian

This is from a pew research

Whites are christian/catholic/agnostic/athiest etc so you're wrong on whites

India you're very wrong India is very mixed with yes majority Hindu but a very very large Muslim population and the rest christian or Presbyterian

You're very very very wrong on your religion stance.

Who do you think you're fooling? Really you're going to sit up here and act like europe america's isn't white christian majority lol and catholic is christianity they go by the holy bible

I've been to europe and the best word to describe white Europeans is irreligious

 

[zzombie]

@En-Fuego22 you really should reevaluate everything you think

 

[desertrain10]

@zzombie is right

Get over your feelings

I don't get y'all

We've actually made gains thanks in great part to the civil rights movement, wouldn't you agree?

College enrollment up, teen pregnancy down, poverty down, crime down, etc

Still a ways to go, but let's acknowledge how far we've come in a very short period of time

That said, no one of intelligence today would argue that those organizers of the civil rights movement were enablers or should have put the Montgomery bus boycott on the back burner to focus on black on black violence back then though murder rates were higher in the 60s

Rightfully they focused squarely on structural racism, the most consistent and overpowering impediment to blk success in america, and the thread that connects every era of its history

Same as what we should be doing today

All that struggle during the civil rights era was needed but we don't live in the 1960's anymore it is 2016 and applying what worked in the past is a losing strategy. That's why groups like BLM will ULTIMATELY accomplish nothing. Today we need self reflection and self improvement or else everything that happened during the civil rights era will be meaningless.

REMOVING STRUCTURAL RACISM is not going to equal dollars in your pocket??? Black people have made social gains but our economic

Lol

So our faith in the effectiveness of political and social activism should hinge not on the success of the civil rights movement, but rather on the supposed ineffectiveness of groups like BLM, an organization not even 5 yrs old. Never mind the national push for body cameras, sharpened focus on state attorney races, push for scaling back prosecutorial power, etc

Not to say the civil rights movement and subsequent organizing has been without flaw, but the reason why we haven't made any substantial gains in wealth is clear:

-Historically we have been denied access to higher education and training for skilled trades

-Discrimination in the job market, banking and housing market

-We are disproportionately poor and poor ppl pay more for just about everything

-Debtors prisons

-Blks more likely to have to take out a loan to pay for college

That said, removing sructural racism will help keep money in our pockets so we can begin to think about building wealth, investing, starting a business, etc

For instance, In its report on the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, the Justice Department found that officers disproportionately stopped and ticketed blk citizens. For a “manner of walking” violation, it was $302; for “high grass and weeds,” $531

You think that shit only happens there?

A $302 ticket can be devastating for someone who is experiencing a medical emergency or was recently laid off work

Yea let's talk about how capitalism's cycles of depression and recession have also long contributed to ongoing social injustice and the stunting of blk wealth /stunting blk middle class

Multiple recessions that struck america throughout the late 70s and 80s, for instance, wiped out a lot of the Blk middle class that began to surface in the 50s, 60s

And our most recent recession disporpotionately impacted minorities

Then you got politicians cutting the funding to the very social programs that were meant to keep families afloat during these times

Don't get me started on how the cost of medical care has stunted Blk wealth. Thanx privatized health care

So yea closing the wealth gap is going to take way more then self reflection on our parts

Political and social activism as a solution to black problems has basically run it's course and from now on will BE DRASTICALLY reduced in effectiveness. remember the occupy wall street nonsense??? it did not work/ ACCOMPLISHED very little and neither will BLM. The fatal flaw in your way of thinking is the belief that you can solve certain problems or that you even have the right to.

-YOU WON'T BE ABLE to stop discrimination in the workforce, housing market or banking industry because those are largely private enterprises. You cannot force me to hire someone i really don't want, you cannot force banks to lead to black people and housing discrimination by private owners is hard to prove... I know because used to rent to people and i discriminated, i hire people and i discriminated, i tried to get loans and i was denied for no good reason but i did not cry about it.

-In 2016 there are no one is stopping black from seeking education and hey haven't for a long time now.

-yes it sucks to be poor a certain level of poverty is a function of human economic systems

- there are no REAL debtors prisons. If you miss a court date you violated the law, if you don't pay your tickets you violated the law. IF BLACKS don't want certain ordinances to be enforced then shouldn't those democratic politicians that we have been voting for DO SOME THING?? they don't because they don't care about your black ass.

- blacks have less money due to the fact that we have not built a proper economic base for ourselves so naturally we have to take out loans for school.

I freely admit things are harder for black people but it would be made less hard if we did not engage in so much destructive behavior. Structural racism will not be totally removed it will always exist because outside of government i.e the private sector you cannot force people to be non-racist. BOOM AND BUST is part of the capitalistic system . the so called black middle class is largely a creation of the government,the black middle class is disproportionately composed of people with government jobs... so of course when the government makes needed cuts or fucks up blacks will be affected more than others.

YOU NEED TO GROW UP AND ACCEPT CERTAIN HARSH REALITIES OF LIFE.

Lol

Fact is historically we were never been able to build an sustainable economic base because....discrimination, racism, lack of access to capital, debt

Unfortunately these challenges have perpuated poverty within our communities and left generations without avenues to build wealth and nothing to pass on to their children

Wealth in america is mainly acquired through inheritance above all else

Subsequently their children are often times forced to take on loans to pay for a higher education, which leaves them financially vulernable, with little disposable income to build invest and little to pass on to their children

Being targeted by law enforcement for petty offenses more then any other group doesn't help at all

That said, the government have employeed a lot of blk, so what? The military is the biggest goverment jobs program. And they primarily employ whites. But you know when it's time to cut jobs who gets laid off first

And I would contend a sizable segment of the Blk middle class was devasted with the lost of manufacturing jobs

No, you can't legislate away racism, but you can curb discrimination and ease inequality. The problem is there is no political will to, because we don't apply enough pressure on our government. Niggas like you def don't help either

Universal health care, for ex, would do wonders for Blk wealth

Strengthening social safety net would do a lot of good as well and stabilize the economy since business cycles, and the unemployment, homelessness, lack of adequate food, and so on that come along with capitalism disproportionately impact the working class,

poor

Globalization and technological change add to the insecurity that workers feel

Social insurance spreads these risks across the population

So as I was saying closing the wealth gap is going to take way more then self improvement

 

[zzombie]

@desertrain10

You are one lost girl

Today NO one is stoping black people from doing a fucking thing so there is no excuse. people are born poor for variable reasons and as a result their children will have less and have to fight harder that is just how it is. White, black or inbetween THERE WILL BE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS, but if you are born poor you cannot use poverty as an excuse to stay that way. The poverty in the black community is no excuse for the murder and overall degeneracy and underachievement of course police target us more but not just because they are racist ( which they are) but because we we do stupid crime and act like jackasses thus giving then even more justification to criminalize the black race.

TO BE FREE YOU CANNOT DEPEND ON YOUR GOVERNMENT TOO MUCH, THAT BLACK PEOPLE ARE SO dependent ON our GOVERNMENT only shows our WEAKNESS. WHO FEEDS YOU CONTROLS YOU if black people don't want to be enslaved we have to build our wealth in the private sector. THE military is needed. A state cannot survive or grow powerful without a powerful military so smart governments are naturally reluctant to make military cuts.

The manufacturing jobs went away due to international political and economic forces not racism.

BLACKS are 13% of the population and to make it worse we don't have any real economic power so we do not have the political pull to accomplish much of what you would like, which means we have to unite with other groups whose long term interest may eventually clash with ours for example the lgbt movement.

closing the wealth gap requires black people starting businesses and more importantly making our dollars circulate amongst ourselves all of your suggestions amounts to nothing more than begging for tax payers money, more social welfare programs and high taxes. FOH.

 

[MarcusGarvey]

@zzombie is right

Get over your feelings

I don't get y'all

We've actually made gains thanks in great part to the civil rights movement, wouldn't you agree?

College enrollment up, teen pregnancy down, poverty down, crime down, etc

Still a ways to go, but let's acknowledge how far we've come in a very short period of time

That said, no one of intelligence today would argue that those organizers of the civil rights movement were enablers or should have put the Montgomery bus boycott on the back burner to focus on black on black violence back then though murder rates were higher in the 60s

Rightfully they focused squarely on structural racism, the most consistent and overpowering impediment to blk success in america, and the thread that connects every era of its history

Same as what we should be doing today

Not arguing those points.

Progress for some, what about median and mean? What's really changed? Access to unsecured credit?

There's internal shit we have to figure out. That's where I agree with @zzombie

I thank God I was partly educated in JA, I never felt I was less than and quickly got over white racism. The civil rights made room, the space for what's possible today, I would NEVER insult them or say it's in vain. However, black people are our own worst enemy, instead of focusing on white adulation, we NEED self care and self-help. The median american black family when you take out the family car is worth $1,200. If that don't make you angry then we not in the same fight.

Maybe I saw it with less sting than zombie but it's the same shit

Who is looking for white adulation???? Lol

I'm just proposing we continue what they started back in the 60s and focus on changing public policy, law ...rather than on the actions of a small segment of our community

Especially considering most Blk ppl are hard working, family oriented, and value education

Unless you seriously believe the actions of the few are what is really holding us back

And I like how you just gonna sneeze at the gains we've made in college enrollment, entrepreneurship, lowering teen pregnancy, crime is down, etc

We are behind in wealth...which is an understatement and that makes me angry...but slavery ended a little over 150 years ago ...then we had 100 yrs of Jim Crow after that, which I could argue is still alive

But I digress, maybe you do believe most Blk do are lazy, ignorant, criminal, etc

We can get to a middle ground. @desertrain10

Here's my QuickTake:

•you're not getting reparations

•you're not getting acres and mule

Focus on getting increasing wealth and its building blocks

• education - fuck teachers union, anywhere that has negros, should have charter schools (some of them are trash but need state supervision). Need even more blacks to get 4 year degrees. We playing catch up, it can't be the same avg as the population. Which mean we need to get black men pulling their weight

•focus on entrepreneurship/self employment - access to capital an issue? Start small. Why aren't there more plumbers, mechanics, home renovators etc to go along with doctors lawyers dentists etc

•invest your money in land, real estate, stocks, bonds

•two parent households should again be the norm

•vigilante justice for those not acting up

One home at a time.

I agree, building up blk families and wealth is key...same as making smarter investments

We should play a larger role in keeping our neighborhoods safe

I just don't know how possible that is, building Blk wealth, without first addressing the structural barriers and discriminatory practices that prevent us from buying property, starting businesses, going to college, etc

@desertrain10

Slow and steady, this will take generations. I agree with Boyce Watkins on this, our job is to plant a seed. You may be the first in your family to graduate college or to start a small business, start small, watch it grow. You don't need laws to change to grow black wealth from median of $1,200 to $10,000. Shit is appalling

Eh

You don't need laws to change, but it will help tremendously

It's not in white peoples best interest to give up their spot. Black politics is ass, they can't even whisper "black" in public, they got to use "minorities, the disenfranchised"

Govt ain't gonna do shit for black folks. Look how quick they passed Blue Lives Matter laws. Thats spit in BLMs face. I'm not for marching and crying. I'm boycotting when I can and strengthening my circle

 

[5th Letter]

When we tried to do for ourselves in the past our neighborhoods were bombed or freeways/highways were built through our neighborhoods. We need to do for ourselves but white supremacy is a large factor into why black people are where we are. They've mentally conditioned our minds in so many ways.

 

[Mister B.]

All bullshit aside, one the main problems in the black community is a severe lack of economic empowerment in our own establishments. So, I took to the streets yesterday with a flyer to try to help the cause. My hope is by the end of the week, I can hit up every Black Owned business in Crown Heights to raise this awareness.

A market.

Black-owned clothing store.

My favorite Carribean food spot.

Electronics store. (they fix Apple products and phones)

The gym down the street from my apt.

 

[2stepz_ahead]

religion is not the blame as much as people leaning on the word and not the work they need to put in.

ex.

lawd i need you to send me a blessing to keep my lights on.

*goes to check mail*

*finds check for $200*

thank you lawd....now can you pay it for me

 

[AP21]

at least @desertrain10 fighting back

I C U ma

 

[Olorun22]

@En-Fuego22 you really should reevaluate everything you think

Nah, you should. You generalized alot you think just because you went to europe you know they irreligious.

 

[Olorun22]

Why have you accepted the narrative that what the man said was racist?? NOTHING he said was racist. You don't know or know of any black people who do crime ?? or know any black baby mamas?? you don't know any black people who only vote democrat no matter what??? is that what you are saying... STOP LYING.

cry me a fucking river about reagan and bush putting drugs in the black community, did they force anyone to snort or inject themselves?? No. ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS in some degree would still exist no matter what we do however by foolishly indulging these negative behavior we exacerbate or problems

The same shit he spew is what a white racist would say and all that leading up to is black people working harder and not getting their just due and white people just laughing at them. It's a fuckin game a big joke to them that a people would work so hard knowing that it's not going to happen.

I know all those people that you claim that make us look bad and they don't have a victim mentality we know they fucking deal in the country. For the most part black people are scary to lose what they already have and don't want to risk it because white people control this country. Just like the football player they are scare of white backlash with the flag.

 

[Max.]

How did that target xmas protest go?

 

[babelipsss]

The continuing parrot talk of the trillion dollar spending power is counterproductive. Spending your money on trinkets and personal services does absolutely nothing to increase black wealth even if you confine it to black owned businesses only. The way to generate real wealth is by buying real estate, stocks, gold, savings, etc...things that you can pass on to the next generation. We have to figure out what has real value and what's a shiny toy.

 

[Mister B.]

The continuing parrot talk of the trillion dollar spending power is counterproductive. Spending your money on trinkets and personal services does absolutely nothing to increase black wealth even if you confine it to black owned businesses only. The way to generate real wealth is by buying real estate, stocks, gold, savings, etc...things that you can pass on to the next generation. We have to figure out what has real value and what's a shiny toy.

This would only be true if it also didn't apply to everyday items as well. This applies to basic living items, food, clothing, laundry (since most of people in NYC go to laundromats), barber shops, etc.

It's not just about buying black-owned fashion "wants." It's about supporting black-owned basic lifestyle needs.

 

[zzombie]

@En-Fuego22 you really should reevaluate everything you think

Nah, you should. You generalized alot you think just because you went to europe you know they irreligious.

I know they are irreligious not just because i've been to europe but because every study done of current european feelings on religion points to them being irreligious

 

[LPast]

@zzombie is right

Get over your feelings

I don't get y'all

We've actually made gains thanks in great part to the civil rights movement, wouldn't you agree?

College enrollment up, teen pregnancy down, poverty down, crime down, etc

Still a ways to go, but let's acknowledge how far we've come in a very short period of time

That said, no one of intelligence today would argue that those organizers of the civil rights movement were enablers or should have put the Montgomery bus boycott on the back burner to focus on black on black violence back then though murder rates were higher in the 60s

Rightfully they focused squarely on structural racism, the most consistent and overpowering impediment to blk success in america, and the thread that connects every era of its history

Same as what we should be doing today

All that struggle during the civil rights era was needed but we don't live in the 1960's anymore it is 2016 and applying what worked in the past is a losing strategy. That's why groups like BLM will ULTIMATELY accomplish nothing. Today we need self reflection and self improvement or else everything that happened during the civil rights era will be meaningless.

REMOVING STRUCTURAL RACISM is not going to equal dollars in your pocket??? Black people have made social gains but our economic

Lol

So our faith in the effectiveness of political and social activism should hinge not on the success of the civil rights movement, but rather on the supposed ineffectiveness of groups like BLM, an organization not even 5 yrs old. Never mind the national push for body cameras, sharpened focus on state attorney races, push for scaling back prosecutorial power, etc

Not to say the civil rights movement and subsequent organizing has been without flaw, but the reason why we haven't made any substantial gains in wealth is clear:

-Historically we have been denied access to higher education and training for skilled trades

-Discrimination in the job market, banking and housing market

-We are disproportionately poor and poor ppl pay more for just about everything

-Debtors prisons

-Blks more likely to have to take out a loan to pay for college

That said, removing sructural racism will help keep money in our pockets so we can begin to think about building wealth, investing, starting a business, etc

For instance, In its report on the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, the Justice Department found that officers disproportionately stopped and ticketed blk citizens. For a “manner of walking” violation, it was $302; for “high grass and weeds,” $531

You think that shit only happens there?

A $302 ticket can be devastating for someone who is experiencing a medical emergency or was recently laid off work

Yea let's talk about how capitalism's cycles of depression and recession have also long contributed to ongoing social injustice and the stunting of blk wealth /stunting blk middle class

Multiple recessions that struck america throughout the late 70s and 80s, for instance, wiped out a lot of the Blk middle class that began to surface in the 50s, 60s

And our most recent recession disporpotionately impacted minorities

Then you got politicians cutting the funding to the very social programs that were meant to keep families afloat during these times

Don't get me started on how the cost of medical care has stunted Blk wealth. Thanx privatized health care

So yea closing the wealth gap is going to take way more then self reflection on our parts

Political and social activism as a solution to black problems has basically run it's course and from now on will BE DRASTICALLY reduced in effectiveness. remember the occupy wall street nonsense??? it did not work/ ACCOMPLISHED very little and neither will BLM. The fatal flaw in your way of thinking is the belief that you can solve certain problems or that you even have the right to.

-YOU WON'T BE ABLE to stop discrimination in the workforce, housing market or banking industry because those are largely private enterprises. You cannot force me to hire someone i really don't want, you cannot force banks to lead to black people and housing discrimination by private owners is hard to prove... I know because used to rent to people and i discriminated, i hire people and i discriminated, i tried to get loans and i was denied for no good reason but i did not cry about it.

-In 2016 there are no one is stopping black from seeking education and hey haven't for a long time now.

-yes it sucks to be poor a certain level of poverty is a function of human economic systems

- there are no REAL debtors prisons. If you miss a court date you violated the law, if you don't pay your tickets you violated the law. IF BLACKS don't want certain ordinances to be enforced then shouldn't those democratic politicians that we have been voting for DO SOME THING?? they don't because they don't care about your black ass.

- blacks have less money due to the fact that we have not built a proper economic base for ourselves so naturally we have to take out loans for school.

I freely admit things are harder for black people but it would be made less hard if we did not engage in so much destructive behavior. Structural racism will not be totally removed it will always exist because outside of government i.e the private sector you cannot force people to be non-racist. BOOM AND BUST is part of the capitalistic system . the so called black middle class is largely a creation of the government,the black middle class is disproportionately composed of people with government jobs... so of course when the government makes needed cuts or fucks up blacks will be affected more than others.

YOU NEED TO GROW UP AND ACCEPT CERTAIN HARSH REALITIES OF LIFE.

Lol

Fact is historically we were never been able to build an sustainable economic base because....discrimination, racism, lack of access to capital, debt

Unfortunately these challenges have perpuated poverty within our communities and left generations without avenues to build wealth and nothing to pass on to their children

Wealth in america is mainly acquired through inheritance above all else

Subsequently their children are often times forced to take on loans to pay for a higher education, which leaves them financially vulernable, with little disposable income to build invest and little to pass on to their children

So as I was saying closing the wealth gap is going to take way more then self improvement

Regarding wealth...But what you are saying is not is not insurmountable because of race. It's really an ignorance factor.

You yourself can save money right now so your kids don't have to get student loans to most schools.

Actually owning your house gives you an asset you can pass down. Your kids can put that money towards owning their own home.

To summarize, you can literally start the chain of wealth...

It helps to have two working parents...