On Jul 9, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Racial Wealth Gap Increases Fourfold in One Generation
Ok, that's wealth, not income. Which is an important material source of a lot of racial disparities people point to, the accretion of generations of income inequality and, for middle-income people, differences in homeownership. These disparities are often attributed to abstractions like "racism" and "white supremacy," things that have no agency.
> You don't agree that white supremacy is an ongoing structural feature of US capitalism?
In what sense? Inequality has been increasing, and bad shit has been happening to the below-median portion of the population for decades now. That below-median share is disproportionately black, for sure, but there are plenty of whites and others there too, and attributing the bad shit to "white supremacy" isn't very precise.