You can't compare the experience of different minorities.
Educated people tend to have educated children. The black community in America has a unique history due to slavery. We are talking about entire communities who were slaves and then forced into impoverished ghettos. When the entire community is in trouble, the trouble perpetuates through generations. You can't just tell them to go to school and get jobs, when its so much harder to do that.
Things are changing, but its a slow process. Every year the proportion of blacks in colleges rises. The other issue is that it's not ancient history either. Jim Crow laws were in force until 1965. Rosa Parks' act of defiance took place in 1955. A lot of black people alive today remember those events. So it's strange that we can't see why they don't have money to pass through generations. The vast majority of white college students in North America get financial help from their parents of some kind.
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