I appreciate your view. Thank you for sharing and I'm a big fan of your articles and I eagerly await your future articles. My final comment on this one however is if the stats I'm referring to regarding the disproportion of wealth, the racist hiring practices the racist mortgage lending practices, the disparity of people of color in low paying job compared to non-people of color and the disparity of people of color not in high paying jobs compared to non-people of color, if those stats were 1960's or 1970's stats I would agree with you. But unfortunately those stats I'm talking about are 2019 stats. So we will have to simply agree to disagree respectfully on this one.
Agree with all your points Richard. The only thing I would ask you to consider is are all your points truly realistic options for all people, particularly for people of color. Just consider becoming familiar with the vast disproportion of low paying jobs that many people of color are limited to because of racist hiring/promotion practices. Can any and every body work hard starting in the mailroom and work there way up to the higher paying roles or are some people subjected to racism and never achieve the level of corporate success you did, simply because of the color of their skin? Think about the lack of available quality mortgage loans in "redline" areas... most of those areas are heavily populated with people of color...will those people be able to "mortgage" their house like you did to send their children to college? Simply google the average or median networth of people of color vs non-people of color and/or google percent of people of color that own homes vs. non-people of color and you tell me if you still think any and everyone have the same "privilege" as you to achieve the same as you. Remember the term "privileged" doesn't mean you or are family have vast wealth or come from vast wealth, it simply means you and your family didn't have to fight through racism and racists practices to try to achieve wealth.
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I appreciate your view. Thank you for sharing and I'm a big fan of your articles and I eagerly await your future articles. My final comment on this one however is if the stats I'm referring to regarding the disproportion of wealth, the racist hiring practices the racist mortgage lending practices, the disparity of people of color in low paying job compared to non-people of color and the disparity of people of color not in high paying jobs compared to non-people of color, if those stats were 1960's or 1970's stats I would agree with you. But unfortunately those stats I'm talking about are 2019 stats. So we will have to simply agree to disagree respectfully on this one.
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Agree with all your points Richard. The only thing I would ask you to consider is are all your points truly realistic options for all people, particularly for people of color. Just consider becoming familiar with the vast disproportion of low paying jobs that many people of color are limited to because of racist hiring/promotion practices. Can any and every body work hard starting in the mailroom and work there way up to the higher paying roles or are some people subjected to racism and never achieve the level of corporate success you did, simply because of the color of their skin? Think about the lack of available quality mortgage loans in "redline" areas... most of those areas are heavily populated with people of color...will those people be able to "mortgage" their house like you did to send their children to college? Simply google the average or median networth of people of color vs non-people of color and/or google percent of people of color that own homes vs. non-people of color and you tell me if you still think any and everyone have the same "privilege" as you to achieve the same as you. Remember the term "privileged" doesn't mean you or are family have vast wealth or come from vast wealth, it simply means you and your family didn't have to fight through racism and racists practices to try to achieve wealth.
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