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Originally Posted by polak
Why are African Americans so highly represented versus Latin Americans? Genuine question.
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I think part of it is you have self propagating issues for African Americans that occurred as a result of having a massive enslaved, uneducated, neglected population that had broken families as a result of the slave trade, suddenly freed with no personal wealth, connections, home or land ownership, and minimal rights as compared to white people. As we've seen with our Native populations, those issues can easily persist for decades.
The Latin American population faced many challenges, as many came into the US poor and desperate, but Latino populations soared starting in the 70s, where they had a much more accepting society and had way more individual rights than African Americans did at the end of slavery, and faced fewer of the complicating factors, or to lesser degrees than all of the freed slaves.
My theory, no clue how much water it holds.