So as a fun experiment: what would a study look like that would prove racism to you guys? Be specific.
It is always amusing to watch people twist into pretzels to pretend otherwise.
I think it was you that linked a study comparing call-back rates for identical resumes for generic white-sounding or black-sounding names. That seems pretty cut and dried. Beyond that, it would certainly be helpful to not pretend that all high school educations and all full time jobs are equivalent. Where one grows up massively affects one's educational and employment opportunities.
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So why is this the case? Did a large portion of the African American community come to live in poor neighborhoods with bad schools in a vacuum? It's just a statistical anomaly?
What reasons would you ascribe to it?
Four main reasons. First, Jim Crow laws and similar systematic and systemic racial discrimination. Although that ended a long time ago, it still materially affects what any individual begins life with, and that's one of if not the main determinant of relative success in life. Second, the well-meaning progressive programs of the sixties devastated the black family by making fathers not only redundant but actually harmful as far as getting free government stuff. The same programs are doing the same to other races of course, but having started out much poorer on average (slavery, Jim Crow, racism) blacks found such programs more attractive and more easily obtained. (Which is not surprising since these programs were largely designed to counter the lingering effects of slavery, Jim Crow, and racism.) Third, there are counterproductive cultural elements which are more prevalent among black people than among other races. If one has visible prison-style tats, one's chances of being selected for most jobs drops considerably. And fourth, racism; people are less likely to take a chance on a black employee. Just because one particular study purporting to demonstrate racism is badly crafted has no effect on whether or not racism exists in our society.
In the sixties government began building massive apartment complexes which were nicer than what many (perhaps most) people could afford. Rents were partially or fully subsidized. Black people were the main target for this. Initially this worked well, but a couple unintended consequences soured the mash. First, the people in control pitied the black people flocking into these complexes. Pity is corrosive, and assuming that black people couldn't behave led to these complexes becoming hellholes where cops only tread in mass. Second, in an effort to be accountable intact families and men found it difficult to get qualified. Consequently poor young black women found that marriage brought a struggle to survive, whereas a child out of wedlock brought relative security - a steady check, food stamps, government health care, a home with rent paid each month by Uncle Sugar. Whether its elephants of humans, removing fathers tends to lead to poor results.