Posted on 07/11/2022 7:32:38 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
As inflation continues to impact working-class Americans across the country, reports show that Black Americans are being hit the hardest. On top of the massive economic inequalities caused by the pandemic, rising costs for housing, food, and gas are making it virtually impossible for Black communities to improve their financial conditions in material ways.
My grandfather — as a young person — met people who had been wealthy slave owners before the Civil War. It has only been a few generations since more of America’s wealth was derived from enslaved people rather than farmland or factories. We have come a long way since then.
Unfortunately, there is still a very long way to go. Black Americans continue to face systemic discrimination in virtually every corner and every institution in America. One of the most salient yet overlooked places where Black Americans encounter bias, however, is our nation’s tax code. Its preferential treatment of existing wealth over income leaves the Black community at a permanent disadvantage when compared to their significantly wealthier white counterparts.
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Add, through the communist politicians throwing our monies to keep people in poverty instead of giving the hand up out. Keep giving them a small taste but not enough to make a difference.
A lot of former slaves stayed on the owners land and share cropped. Many former owners were surprised how much better it was for them relieving them of cradle to grave responsibility.
After the war my ancestors wound up down in south Texas living in a thatched hut working as cowboys on someone else’s ranch. They were cowboys for the next several generations.
Neat people, but certainly not rich.
More evidence, if any was needed, that the two races will never be able to peacefully coexist together.
Time to admit this dysfunctional marriage ain’t working. Time for a separation is past due.
Let each side go their own way in peace to determine their own destiny.
The “poor” don’t pay all that much in taxes anyways.
This is BS.
Yep, I agree. Blacks need to pay their fair share.
Morris, either it’s Black/White or it’s black/white.
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