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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Examples?
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Predominately black schools/neighbourhoods have received less funding now and in the past, which puts kids from those schools/neighbourhoods at a disadvantage to graduate or be accepted into a non-black university. Even if the funding is/has been corrected, the impact is felt across generations.
For example, Bobby goes to a school that gives him virtually no chance to to university because the funding isn't there to give them the same chances that the 'white' schools have. That's a pretty obvious example.
However, Bobby's cousin goes to another school, where someone last year gave them the exact funding as the top rate schools in the country, but this cousin still lives in the same neighbourhood as Bobby and has the same friends. This environment that they grew up in discourages people from actively pursuing higher education, because none of their parents did it, their friends are all into things that don't really mesh with educational acheivement. Additionally, you don't want to be seen as turning your back on your roots.
You could add in things like Bobby's dad is way more likely to be in prison or have been in prison. Bobby is also more likely to be racially profiled by police and charged with something he didn't do.
Even if Bobby did get to University on a scholarship, he would face way more discrimination, either overt or simply perceived, from his peers and teachers unless he went to an all black university, since over 60% of the students are white. The curriculum is more likely to be presented in a way which is more understandable to a person with the background of a white person compared to a black person, and it would be far more likely to be taught by a white professor. All of which combine to make it far less likely that Bobby will even finish school, let alone excel in his classes and receive scholastic awards or prime job offers straight out of school.
White people don't need to think about this stuff.
Now, it is certainly far worse in the US due to various cultural and historical factors, but it happens in Canada as well with the Native population (residential schools, reserves, etc)