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My favorite 'argument' against not including race as a factor is that all of these people think that after 1965 every black person to ever walk this earth suddenly became a middle class citizen and moved to a neighborhood with a good school.

Ignoring the fact that many of those kids and adults who grew up during the Civil Rights Era (Both of who are still alive today!!!!) didn't magically get better lives aft(er the acts. Nothing changed for them on an individual basis, so many of those families are only just starting to get out of poverty (if at all!) that the economic opportunities aren't the same. And then people have the gall to say "but they don't perform as well as others!" as if these issues are magically fixed and don't have long term impact even though the generation that faced economic, educational, systemic oppression its still alive and that those policies affected their ability to provide their own kids economic and educational opportunities.

People like to quote MLK saying it's cruel to tell a man without boots to pull himself up with bootstraps, but entirely miss the point where the civil rights act gave people the right to buy boots, but not the means to do so, nor any boots themselves.

As far as the Asian American lawsuit goes, I won't comment on the specifics, but I do find it fascinating that Asians being a "model minority" is used to both dismiss any legitimate racism against them and also to justify mistreatment of other minorities who aren't Asian. The Korematsu generation Asians who spent time in the camps as kids are statistically more predisposed to violence and crime. You don't think that affects how future generations are raised?
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