Lurker > BeantownHero

A woman in her 20s is better then any old hag, even early 30s is better then some old woman who is on the decline.

Literally holding to people to ransom over how much they should tip you. You get your tip after the delivery. Not before. If McDonalds has an issue with this they should pay them more per order.

tip workers think they should earn more than min wage. tipping culture helps supplement their pay to an amount they think they're unskilled self is entitled to. if they get paid a set wage like a normal job, they lose the ability to extort. people will still tip, but they can't throw a fit if the % isn't to their liking and coerce more from customers.

Tbf, it's reaching the point where systemic racism has kinda been the catch all argument for lack of black verticality to the point of literal laziness and there's a lot of questionable gaps in it being the catch all reason that still don't add up.

1. People who come to the US with language gaps and even less wealth than Americanized black people tend to have higher wealth verticality. This suggests that it's more than merely an issue of wealth or even lack of access to top tier education.
2. Speaking of education, black people are disproportionately likely to drop out of HS, which is definitely a black community PR problem that only they themselves can truly address.
3. African black people are not only one of the highest earning demographics, but also one of the least criminalized people in this country. Furthermore, people who come to this country with nothing and are low earners with language gaps are also usually in low income neighborhoods, yet they are still commiting much less violent crime...
The reality is, the truth is probably a bit inbetween systemic racism and what Candace advocates. It is a combination of both disadvantaged circumstance and constant emphasis on this disenfranchisement, that there is some magical politician one term away from fixing all of their problems, or the constant nihilism that racism is so strong and prevalent in this country that is an insurmountable obstacle to black people's success.

And as already pointed out in this topic, this isn't a 99.99% black people problem, it's just a problem prevalent in a very small percentage of the community that is struggling due to a variety of reasons. However, I think we've reached the point where dismissing a very high percentage of black crime (which is dispreportionately done to other black people) and homocide (again, dispreportionately done to other black people) as merely society at large being the ONLY or even the MAIN factor at this point...is part of the problem. If you are constantly spewing propoganda that the system is rigged, you are far more likely to give up (school disenfranchisement in the form of higher HS dropout and less college attendance) or fight against the system (commit crimes, resist/fight cops, etc.). There are people flocking to this country every day with worse financial straights (so no generational wealth either), a language gap to overcome, less affirmative action to assist in jobs or school assistance, that are still less likely to become disenfranchised and give up on the system or damage their own communities.

While there is absolutely external factors leading to all this (systemic racism: actually racist cops, racist people/business owners, generational financial disadvantage, etc.), there is an undeniable internal factor at play as well that often gets brushed under the rug (disenfranchisement: high HS dropout rates, college drop out rates, high crime both violent and otherwise in your own communities, etc.). It gets to a point where you're playing a bit TOO much devil's advocacy for criminals and how much their activity is based on society dealing them a bad hand, as plenty of poor people are out there not stealing and murdering, especially from their own communities.

why? has he given that impression?