Eric Reid Press Conference

[WarHeel]

3 minutes ago, Matthias said:

Man, I'm let to this party!  I haven't entirely read through this topic, but there are some who are saying things about black American history that doesn't make any sense.  Talking about all the stuff with the lack of access to the GI Bill and New Deal policies is something that doesn't effect us today, that it was many years ago and we have equal opportunity like everyone else.  Bull!  You don't even understand America is not even growing like it was back in the New Deal age.  Black Americans were locked out of society during a very critical period to build wealth.  We are now living in the day and age where inheritance determines your access to a quality life.  The median wealth for white families is well over 100k, yet for black families its around 1k and diminishing.  By 2053, its expected to hit zero for us.  So all the things Eric Reid is talking are true, and goes beyond it.  I applaud this brother for speaking on these things.

Would love to see where you’re getting these numbers. Maybe I grew up in the rough part of town but none of my friends families were touching 100k and my noncaucausian friends were in the same boat financially.

 

My wife and I carry 11 years of post high school education between the two of us and we aren’t even touching 100k.

[WarHeel]

2 minutes ago, TheRed said:

 

 

 

Stormhuddle.

Care to elaborate?

[Matthias]

1 minute ago, WarHeel said:

Would love to see where you’re getting these numbers. Maybe I grew up in the rough part of town but none of my friends families were touching 100k and my noncaucausian friends were in the same boat financially.

 

My wife and I carry 11 years of post high school education between the two of us and we aren’t even touching 100k.

This is common to talk about individual lives.  I'm talking about the whole in populations.  Even in your individual, poor white Americans have more wealth and income than poor black Americans.

There's a bunch of articles that speak on the wealth gap.  Here's one.....

https://www.businessinsider.com/racial-wealth-gap-in-the-us-is-astounding-2015-3

 

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"Using the SIPP, we estimate that the median white household had $111,146 in wealth holdings in 2011, compared to $7,113 for the median Black household and $8,348 for the median Latino household," the paper reads.

 

Now studies like this add in depreciating assets.  When you purely talk on assets that don't devalue over time, black families are around 1.7k.


This wikipedia page talks on income.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

 

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Rank	Race	Median household income (2018 US$)
1	Indian	126,906[1]
2	Asian	80,720[1]
2	White	61,349[1]
3	All households	57,617[1]
4	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	57,112[1]
5	Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	46,882[1]
6	Some other race	44,798[1]
7	American Indian and Alaska Native	39,719[1]
8	Black or African American	38,555[1]

 

Now look at that chart.  Look who is at the bottom.  How can this be?  Logically speaking, white and black people have been in this country the same amount of time, and thus should have similar numbers right?  It only makes sense of course when you take in history.  Over 200 years of slavery, over a 100 years of Jim Crow, and today we are living in an age of rampant wealth inequality.  You can't flick away all these things just because of your individual life.

[Definitely Not Trolling]

4 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

Would love to see where you’re getting these numbers. Maybe I grew up in the rough part of town but none of my friends families were touching 100k and my noncaucausian friends were in the same boat financially.

 

My wife and I carry 11 years of post high school education between the two of us and we aren’t even touching 100k.

Location in the US is a massive determining factor in wage income. I'm at 100k+ with an AAS from wake tech in Raleigh. The most I got offered there was 30k. Move out to Cali, Texas, or Seattle and you would be banking 250k a year probably. NC wages are strait robbery.

[ickmule]

5 hours ago, *FreeFua* said:

Shut up

Well, he is.  Funny how the truth hurts.  

[MillionDollarCam]

27 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

I would argue that the outdated inequality argument is tiresome. 

So inequality does not exist in any capacity in the world? Or just racial inequality doesn’t exist?

[beastson]

3 minutes ago, Matthias said:

This is common to talk about individual lives.  I'm talking about the whole in populations.  Even in your individual, poor white Americans have more wealth and income than poor black Americans.

There's a bunch of articles that speak on the wealth gap.  Here's one.....

https://www.businessinsider.com/racial-wealth-gap-in-the-us-is-astounding-2015-3

 

 

Now studies like this add in depreciating assets.  When you purely talk on assets that don't devalue over time, black families are around 1.7k.


This wikipedia page talks on income.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

 

 

Now look at that chart.  Look who is at the bottom.  How can this be?  Logically speaking, white and black people have been in this country the same amount of time, and thus should have similar numbers right?  It only makes sense of course when you take in history.  Over 200 years of slavery, over a 100 years of Jim Crow, and today we are living in an age of rampant wealth inequality.  You can't flick away all these things just because of your individual life.

Well damn Indians racking up

[Silent Majority]

27 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

The definition of inequality:

A Caucasian male from a broken and below poverty level home works his ass off to get into the same medical program as an African American male raised in an above middle class home where both the mother and father are together.

 

One graduates with his doctorate owing nothing in education cost and is awarded a stipend each semester in attendance. The other takes on a job while in school and walks away with the same level of education and 190k in government loans. 

 

If no one can see the irony in this while touting equality rights then I can’t even have this discussion. 

 

 

This is the funniest, most uneducated, make believe, butt hurt, alt right bullshit post today. 

[WarHeel]

7 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

So inequality does not exist in any capacity in the world? Or just racial inequality doesn’t exist?

My father in law could teach all of you something about inequality living in Communist Romania. Most of you know nothing of anything outside your own illusioned being.

[WarHeel]

4 minutes ago, Silent Majority said:

This is the funniest, most uneducated, make believe, butt hurt, alt right bullshit post today. 

I’ll send you the loan statements. Spoiler alert, I’m the former of the two. 

[MillionDollarCam]

2 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

My father in law could teach all of you something about inequality living in Communist Romania. Most of you know nothing of anything outside your own illusioned being.

I didn’t ask about your father in law or his beliefs, I asked about yours.

Do you believe that inequality exists at least in some capacity in the world? Furthermore, do you believe that racial inequality exists?

[Rastlet]

26 minutes ago, Matthias said:

Man, I'm late to this party!  I haven't entirely read through this topic, but there are some who are saying things about black American history that doesn't make any sense.  Talking about all the stuff with the lack of access to the GI Bill and New Deal policies is something that doesn't effect us today, that it was many years ago and we have equal opportunity like everyone else.  Bull!  You don't even understand America is not even growing like it was back in the New Deal age.  Black Americans were locked out of society during a very critical period to build wealth.  We are now living in the day and age where inheritance determines your access to a quality life.  The median wealth for white families is well over 100k, yet for black families its around 1k and diminishing.  By 2053, its expected to hit zero for us.  So all the things Eric Reid is talking are true, and goes beyond it.  I applaud this brother for speaking on these things.

Ok well what is the fix? Everybody wants to cry about it but no one offers any solutions.

[rodeo]

2 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

My father in law could teach all of you something about inequality living in Communist Romania. Most of you know nothing of anything outside your own illusioned being.

pack it in everyone, Botham Jean can rest easy now knowing there is no real injustice because WarHeel's father is from Transylvania.

[Matthias]

Just now, Rastlet said:

Ok well what is the fix? Everybody wants to cry about it but no one offers any solutions.

There's only one fix.  We're talking reparations.  A wholesale investment into black American descendants of slaves.  The same way this country invested into the super wealthy with the bailouts given by Bush and Obama.  That is the just thing to do, and would transform this nation back to the days of the New Deal.