Trickle down social justice will work out just as well as trickle down economics did.

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5. Good point

I didn't mean to suggest that black Americans are all living in poverty. But that is still not to say that racism and sexism still don't create unequal situations and opportunities.

Take, for instance, a story I read last year about a Pipe Fitter's union in New York that had been under federal order to admit minorities (who had been excluded for many decades). The union improved the situation, but the article pointed out how the black union members were not getting the same number of hours or job assignments as the white members, where nepotism (sons and nephews and cousins) was still keeping the original system largely in place by getting the lion's share of work. The black union members were not living in poverty, and could earn the same hourly wage, but they were impeded from earning as much as the dominant tribe.