On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > I never said that race at some point in history was not a predictor of > poverty. You are deluding yourself if you think I said that. I have said > race is no longer a predictor of poverty; instead, poverty is the leading > indicator of future poverty.
Fair enough. What do you think is the tipping point then where race isn't a predictor of poverty? Poverty rates are certainly substantially higher amongst non-whites and the middle class is certainly smaller. At some point, though, I agree that class will have much more to do with a cycle/culture of poverty that is based more on local conditions than anything else. I am not sure that we are there yet though and I'm curious how you would mark the change over. Also, conditions aren't the same for african-americans versus hispanics versus south east asians, etc. Do you feel that we moved passed race for all the non-white groups or just some of them? By the way, I really appreciate the intelligent discussion of this topic on this list. Affirmative Action isn't an easy topic to reasonably discuss since it deals with economics, race and history, all of which can be very contentious. I think it speaks very highly of the folks here that there can be an informative and substantial discussion. Cheers, J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323374 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
