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Originally Posted by icecube
I pose this question to you then. Why is it that black and indigenous people have such a lower economic status and in such massively disproportionate numbers?
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What question are you trying to answer - because they both have different responses. I think the issue is you are trying to conflate the two questions into one.
1) Why is society stratified the way it is right now, seemingly along racial lines and what historical factors have played a role in that?
2) Why is there poor social mobility for certain minority groups in 2018?
If you want an answer to question #2, it is going to look a lot like Cliff's answer, with systemic racism notably absent from the list with a notation that poor social mobility and income inequality is a problem that is affecting every single corner of society right now. Any solution that tries to answer that question shouldn't include racial lines.