Since when is prosperity for all a "white" issue?

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79. Look at this article

I was going to post it in the AA group. The story is one of a soon to be prosperous state--except it's not for Black people.

Minnesota Lawmakers Look for Answers to Black Wealth Gap

But until the negotiations pay off — and it's not clear they will — many activists in Minnesota's black community will remain skeptical.

"We're beyond needing a signal," Levy-Pounds said. "It should not have taken an unarmed young African-American man being killed for people to wake up."

Also difficult is choosing measures that will make a difference. Previous efforts, supported by healthy levels of social spending, have fallen short.

Poverty has dogged Minnesota's black neighborhoods for decades, masked by a progressive sheen embodied by Sen. Hubert Humphrey's outspoken support for civil rights and Sen. Paul Wellstone's "We all do better when we all do better" mantra.

Only 6 percent of Minnesota residents are black, less than half of the national average, and the problems are starkest in Minneapolis' largely minority north side, marked by dilapidated housing projects and rundown storefronts. Long before the recent unrest, the neighborhood was a site of race riots in 1967, when protesters burned down businesses before the National Guard restored order.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/minnesota-lawmakers-answers-black-wealth-gap-37841933