Why is there a wealth gap between the races?

By Tom Quiner I got into a Facebook exchange on the subject of wealth gaps. A friend posted an article with a link to a leftwing study on the wealth gap between blacks and whites: “The average Black family would need 228 years to build the wealth of a white family today.” The article blames…

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“Black people are stupid.”

How would you react if I said to you with a straight face:

“Don’t step out in front of that truck driving by.”

“Don’t forget to tip the waiter.”

“Here, let me show you how to open that car door.”

You’d be insulted. You’d bark back at me, “Do you think I’m stupid?”

And how would it go over if said, “well, you’re…

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Why there’s a wealth gap between races

I got into a Facebook exchange on the subject of wealth gaps.

A friend posted an article with a link to a leftwing study on the wealth gap between blacks and whites: “The average Black family would need 228 years to build the wealth of a white family today.”

The article blames the wealth gap on “400 years of slavery, segregation, and institutionalized discrimination in labor and housing markets…” and calls for reparations.

Here’s how our exchange went:

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Beware T.H.U.G.S. and liberal mayors

By Tom Quiner They prowl the streets of Baltimore. No, they OWN the streets of a city once dubbed ‘the land of pleasant living.’ About whom do I speak? Terrifying Hoodlums Unleashing Grotesque Subversion (aka T.H.U.G.S.) on a city that has morphed into a hellhole. Evidently, it is now considered politically incorrect to use the…

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