The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99746   Message #2007983
Posted By: Bobert
26-Mar-07 - 08:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
Well, what Dickey is not capable of internalizing is that Asians came to this country as immigrants, not slaves....

Slaves were not afforded an eductaion... Then along came the Civil Wra (which it wasn't...), the Emmancipation proclamation, Reconstruction and Jim Crow which kept black people basically uneducated or grossly under-educated until Brown v, Topeka Board of Education in 1953...

Then it took years after that to make any progress toward black being afforded access to education... Blacks still do not enjoy equal access to an education as Asians ansd whites... Part of the problem is this frustrating cycle of keeping blacks segreagtaed which, inspite of the progress since '53 is still a major problem in many communities accross America...

But bottom line, the Asian argument is not an argument at all but another patented right wing distraction...

Bobert