The north has a very flattering view of itself.
I mean if you look at actually living patterns and where demographics live the fact is like
Boston is significantly more segregated than most parts of Mississippi.
But sorry go ahead, your question was?
My question is that they are...that they were..they were enslaved...and they are still
Of course, well still is the question.
Right?
So I've never deny, and I would never deny, because it would be idiotic, that blacks have
been historically discriminated against in America in an unbelievable way, from slavery
to Jim Crow, of course thats true.
Jim Crow was ended in the 1960s. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.
The last time I checked the calendar, its now 2016.
So its been quite a while and the fact is that the poverty rate in the black community
was alleviating a lot more quickly before the rise of the Great Society, during Jim
Crow actually, than it has since then.
And to take another example, I said the single greatest indicator of inter-generational poverty
is single motherhood.
The increased rate of single motherhood is certainly not due to discrimination.
And the proof of that is that during Jim Crow, the actual single motherhood rate in the black
community was 20%, today its in excess of 70%.
What happened?
Are people more racist now than they were in the 1960s?
Of course not.
So you have to look to other factors for why people are behaving the way they are.
So, are there people who still suffer the after affects of historic discrimination?
I think sure.
I mean the fact that if you don't have wealth from your grandfather because your grandfather
couldn't be wealthy because he was a sharecropper in Alabama, yeah of course.
But that goes back to your earlier question, which is what can government do?
What is government capable of doing without violating somebody else's rights?
And the answer is not very much other than guarantee that I don't get in your way.
And the beautiful thing about America now is that nobody gives a crap about you.
Nobody gives a crap about anybody, and thats actually a good thing!
Like I don't think that as long as....I don't spend my nights trying to determine how I
can keep people down.
And nobody really in America does....very much, and because of that as long as people are
leaving you alone, in a free country its your obligation to make your way.
Now I think that theres a myth that goes around that people can make it from poverty to extreme
wealth in a generation.
That happens, it does.
And the fact is that according to the statistics, if you're in the bottom 20% of income earners,
95% of the people in the bottom income earners will be outside the bottom 20% of income earners
within 15 years, according to the IRS statistics.
That said, rising to wealth, as a family unit for example, usually takes multiple generations.
I mean most of our great grandparents when they came here were dirt poor, and now most
of the people in this room probably are not.
And so the fact that there is a delay in that process for a lot of black folks is tragic
and horrible, but it doesn't mean there is a shortcut; not in a free country.
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