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(9,116 posts)What if we also include in this definition a reevaluation of our attitudes toward poverty?
I could be speaking from ignorance here -- I'm not black, and can only base this upon what I, personally, have heard other white people say -- but I get the impression that white Americans associate poverty with moral failure and Black Americans with poverty. The inevitable result is they associate Black Americans with criminality, and automatically assume the worst of them even if they appear ostensibly well-off. A change in how white Americans view poverty may result in a better attitude towards Black Americans.
Still, I am largely in agreement. We're talking about racial and economic attitudes shaped over the course of hundreds of years. There are a lot of factors, and correcting just one of them will probably not prove a miraculous panacea.