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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I enjoyed your MLK videos above and he was right then. But I'm not so sure now.
My parents never got a loan for a convenient store. They both worked cleaning jobs first and saved up to buy one. Of course in the 1980 a convenient store cost maybe 10K. It's different now but people still manage.
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A culturally ingrained work ethic and a willingness to assimilate sound like they were big keys to your parents success. I don't deny their resilience or the obstacles they faced.
Their story and their obstacles are DIFFERENT from blacks and DIFFERENT from indigenous in a myriad of ways. To deny the difference leads to oversimplification of a complex issue and leads to all sorts of stereotypes, prejudices and racism against these groups.
Simple comparisons without a deeper examination into colonization, and systemic racism is how people start thinking the problem is inherent laziness or whatever dumb racist stereotype they've been brainwashed into thinking.