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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
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.
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I think you're over complicating it. Humans are prejudiced against those that look different, your average latino doesn't stand out as much as your average black person. And there are multiple studies showing that the darker a person's skin tone is the more likely they are to be discriminated against