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To: TopQuark
blacks did not have the purchasing power to buy them.

What's your magical solution to solve this? The redistribution of wealth? Affirmative discrimination?

What 'services' are you talking about anyway? Black people did have money and private property during segregation, you know. Some of them were even rich.

37 posted on 12/23/2002 4:12:04 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
You are mixing everything into one pile. Firstly, I pointed out that the above-given statement is not true.

Regarding teh rest:

What's your magical solution to solve this? The redistribution of wealth? Affirmative discrimination? Solve what? Segregation and racism?

Not everything can be solved by economic means. In this particular case, it is the overall sensibilities (hence economic preferences) of society that changed by 1960s. Private ownership of the means of production (capitalism) has nothing to do with that.

Black people did have money and private property during segregation, you know. Some of them were even rich.

Some were, of course. When you look at macro economic picture, you have to look at them as a group. As such they were extremely poor and are still more poor than whites.

40 posted on 12/23/2002 5:38:48 PM PST by TopQuark
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