Kyle Phoenix, Writer and student & Instructor at Columbia University
Yes because capitalism is neutral.
What I directly teach minority students is to understand the positions in Capitalism.
Product----slavery, dependent on welfare/subsidies, uneducated, flotsam.
Consumer/Manager--worker bee, employee, middle class, working class, poor.
Owner/Creator--entrepreneur, business owner, partner, shareholder, controller of taxes.
Black Americans are divided 40%/59%/1% along those groupings. It is easiest to go from Level 2 to 3 but transcendence is dependent on awareness and understanding of the need to move.
Level 1 is a ditch/grave.
Level 2 a house on fire, maybe your room will burn, maybe not.
Level 3 is an island but you have to import and build everything.
Level 1 is a ditch/grave.
Level 2 a house on fire, maybe your room will burn, maybe not.
Level 3 is an island but you have to import and build everything.
Liberation is predicated on an Ideology, the two then synthesized become Power. Power ephemeral/mental at first is what it takes to get to Level 3.
We are slowly as a mass shifting our numbers. Whites are about 50%/30%/20%. Yes, more in poverty but vastly more in American wealth so poorer relatives can be helped easier from relatives, philanthropy and structural racial supports and advantages, such as the GI Bill.
Latinos 60/30/10 because of stronger family networks, the force field to minimize hegemony through culture/language and historical experience with Level 3.
Fifty years to undo 500 and our capitalistic success is amazing. Another fifty and we will be on par and surpassing Latinos. Another hundred and we will have near parity.
People never consider how progress moves slowly, especially for 50 million people directly held back by their own government for years.
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