Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Ben Shapiro WRECKED over wealth gap lies" video.

No Ana, those aren't facts, they're quotations from somebody else, not from researchers. If you're going to call out Ben, then it's rather hypocritical to cherrypick what you like and use that rather than citing research on the matter directly.
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Racism has little to do with the lack of achievement in some of these communities. Or are you seriously suggesting that Africans that have immigrated here over the last 30 years are dealing with less racism than those that descended from slaves? TYT are right in that it's not an individual pull yourself up by the bootstraps kind of a deal. Groups that work their way out of that have to actually work together. And they don't do things like having tons of children out of some sort of a committed relationship. Racism is an excuse. The Irish and Italians also had to deal with significant levels of racism, but they were able to build up their respective communities enough to not be stuck in it all these decades later.
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@danki2000daniel Do you have any evidence that that is the norm these days? It happens, but it's not anywhere as common as people like you claim. It's also not an excuse for why the Black community generally doesn't support their own being successful. The community is doing a lot to keep itself down. If you don't believe me, just look at the Africans that have immigrated to the US in the last several decades. Mysteriously, a lot of this "racism" doesn't seem to be holding them back from achieving things academically and in the work force.
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@BobbyMarley718 This is liberal BS though, not everybody commits crimes and at the point where you're caught, it's lame to suggest that you should be allowed to get away with it due to your skin color. Yes, there are disproportionately stiff penalties for people of color, but that ignores the fact that you're likelihood of being arrested and successfully prosecuted decreases significantly if you don't commit the crime and don't hang out with criminals in the first place.
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@mxlbabe They were substantially poorer because at the time even with training a Black attorney could only have Black clients due to racist policies of the day. The best he or she could hope to be is an attorney for others in the community. That's no longer the case, there are successful attorneys of all cultural backgrounds and they have clients of all cultural backgrounds. Most people are more concerned with the fact that the attorney will provide the legal service they need rather than their skin color. If the Black community would support Black businesses and pool the resources they have, that would change. There's plenty of money in the Black community to change things. They've certainly got more money than the LGBTQ community had at the start of our civil rights movement.
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@mxlbabe So, what? My family didn't arrive in America until after most of that land had been granted. In any case, my family, like most of the later arriving immigrants, moved to cities first and as such, they did not get free land like you're suggesting. The wealth that does exist in my family is the result of things that were available to other people. And the failure of some communities to organize effectively should not be put down to racism. Back during the '50s and '60s the Black community had hugely effective organizers, if they still had effective organizers, these problems would be a thing of the past. You see the same problems plaguing white people in certain parts of the country because they don't have the resources or knowledge to work their way out of their holes, but nobody blames racism for that.
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