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steffandroid | 5 years ago

> A wealthy black person can easily start their own business.

Certainly, but black people are disproportionately less wealthy than white people, so are far less likely to be in that position.

> A poor white person cannot use their whiteness to pay the bills.

This is also true, but they will not face the structural racial discrimination that a black person of their socio-economic standing would.

The trouble with reducing issues of inequality to class alone is that it obscures the systemic biases that make it easier for white dudes to become rich in the first place.

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