re: #1065 Dark_Falcon

I disagree. Just because their is a racial imbalance, does not mean the system is racist. Correlation does not equal causation. If you wish to prove the system racist, you may attempt to do so.

OK, to be completely fair the system is imbalanced towards the poor and the working class.

The fact that in the US those sectors are predominated by minorities is the result of racism (amongst many other things, but you can not ignore the open racism).

So your technical quibble that the system is harsh on poor people and not minorities, only would hold up if certain historical racial trends in America were not real.

Another aspect of this has to do with lack of education. Lack of education leads to many health problems because people just don’t get the correlation between their actions and their health.

But then again, the best education in this nation is reserved for those who can afford it. I do not want to hear about the random scholarship kid who pulled him or herself up by the bootstraps either academically. For every one of them, there are a hundred completely ignorant folks in America.

Again, that has a racial overtone to it because of who this country has made poor - and keeps poor.