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"Disparistan": What If black America was a country?

Marty Escarcega expressed precisely :
> On 11/4/2017 1:09 PM, Byker wrote:
>> In a recent debate with a CNN contributor, the conservative radio talk-show
>> host Larry Elder declared that €œif black America were a country, it would
>> be
>> the 15th-wealthiest country in the world.€: http://bit.ly/2zxrCGP
>>
>> His math proved incorrect, and his invocation of €œblack America€ was
>> followed by a refutation of the concept by a fellow black conservative.
>> Shortly after Elders remarks, the Republican strategist Ron Christie
>> argued
>> that there is no such thing as "black America" and, further, that the very
>> notion of it is antithetical €œto our national motto of E Pluribus Unum.€
>> https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres...-black-america
>
> It is a complete nonsense to think of "black America" as a country. Black
> Americans do as well as they do precisely because of their interaction with
> what is mostly white America. They work in largely white-owned businesses.
> They get the spillover effects of white effort. There is simply no way to
> isolate blacks' economic life from whites.
>

We should have picked our own cotton.

"Disparistan": What If black America was a country?

On 11/4/2017 2:35 PM, Casa de los peregrinos wrote:
> Marty Escarcega expressed precisely :
>> On 11/4/2017 1:09 PM, Byker wrote:
>>> In a recent debate with a CNN contributor, the conservative radio
>>> talk-show
>>> host Larry Elder declared that €œif black America were a country, it
>>> would be
>>> the 15th-wealthiest country in the world.€: http://bit.ly/2zxrCGP
>>>
>>> His math proved incorrect, and his invocation of €œblack America€ was
>>> followed by a refutation of the concept by a fellow black conservative.
>>> Shortly after Elders remarks, the Republican strategist Ron Christie
>>> argued
>>> that there is no such thing as "black America" and, further, that the
>>> very
>>> notion of it is antithetical €œto our national motto of E Pluribus Unum.€
>>> https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres...-black-america
>>
>> It is a complete nonsense to think of "black America" as a country.
>> Black Americans do as well as they do precisely because of their
>> interaction with what is mostly white America.Â* They work in largely
>> white-owned businesses. They get the spillover effects of white
>> effort.Â*Â* There is simply no way to isolate blacks' economic life from
>> whites.
>>
>
> We should have picked our own cotton.
forged.