White supremacy wins again: Melissa Harris Perry and the racial false equivalence

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1. Fantastic article

white Americans believe they have replaced black people as the primary victims of racial discrimination.

White Americans currently have 19 times the wealth of African-Americans. That gap has increased, not decreased, since 1995 when it was at an all-time low of 7-to-1. A 2010 study from Brandeis University found that even among the wealthiest African-Americans, wealth has fallen from $25,000 to $18,000. Perhaps even more shocking is that the wealth of upper-middle-class whites “surged to $240K.” So not only is white wealth increasing, but among African-Americans being “wealthy” on average means you have $18K in assets. That is laughably absurd.

I read so many of the threads here on the MHP incident. If I had a dollar for every person here "concerned" about how her comments reflect liberals or whoever, I wouldn't have to work all month. Yeah, that false equivalence is some bullshit, and I could not care less WHICH side of the aisle does it.