| <https://tinyurl.com/2lnp7aj5> globaltimes.cn
|
| The open discrimination of the past has since evolved into a more
| subtle one .. What's worse, issues that emerged in the US in recent
| years suggest that the human rights situation of African Americans
| has even become worse in many ways. The US has become "most-racial"
| rather than "post-racial."
|
| For instance, the problem of police brutality against African
| Americans has triggered protests from the black community in recent
| years. Economically, black Americans had, on average, one-sixth the
| wealth of white Americans in 2019 on a per capita basis, and that
| gap is still widening ..
What this article forgets to mention is the fact that the very last
decades in the US have passed with an increase of "liberal progressive" narratives in the political and media mainstream.
Historically, the American "liberal left" evolved also as a deliberate counter-weight to the Soviet "communism", so that it always was pretty cautious to touch on the topics of economic management/justice, keeping
the "capitalist system" untouched in basics. Instead, their main focus
was on various inequalities of non-economic nature: race, women, sexual identity. In particular, the anti-racist narratives became predominant
in the US pretty long ago, after the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Nevertheless, the dry statistics show that in the recent decades the
wealth gap between "white" and "black" Americans stays the same or even worsens (e.g. <https://is.gd/XUCAjC> <https://is.gd/ig1r34>). The
situation is such that for a long time there's a lot of noise about the issue, but the issue itself steadily remains unresolved. I tend to view
it so that the true purpose of the noise is that it provides some kind
of "psychological compensation" to those who feel disadvantaged, but it doesn't solve the issue itself in real life. There's no real progress,
but there's a noise, simulation and falsehood.
The latter is what the American "progressivism" seems to be really about:
it speaks nice, it begets attractive expectations, but it doesn't really solve real issues except it helps keep the populace in loyalty to the
elite corporate management (which in turn seeks to employ this "soft
power" for support of the American hegemony in the world context).
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 5:11:22 PM UTC-4, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
| <https://tinyurl.com/2lnp7aj5> globaltimes.cn
|
| The open discrimination of the past has since evolved into a more
| subtle one .. What's worse, issues that emerged in the US in recent
| years suggest that the human rights situation of African Americans
| has even become worse in many ways. The US has become "most-racial"
| rather than "post-racial."
|
| For instance, the problem of police brutality against African
| Americans has triggered protests from the black community in recent
| years. Economically, black Americans had, on average, one-sixth the
| wealth of white Americans in 2019 on a per capita basis, and that
| gap is still widening ..
What this article forgets to mention is the fact that the very last
decades in the US have passed with an increase of "liberal progressive"
narratives in the political and media mainstream.
Historically, the American "liberal left" evolved also as a deliberate
counter-weight to the Soviet "communism", so that it always was pretty
cautious to touch on the topics of economic management/justice, keeping
the "capitalist system" untouched in basics. Instead, their main focus
was on various inequalities of non-economic nature: race, women, sexual
identity. In particular, the anti-racist narratives became predominant
in the US pretty long ago, after the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Nevertheless, the dry statistics show that in the recent decades the
wealth gap between "white" and "black" Americans stays the same or even
worsens (e.g. <https://is.gd/XUCAjC> <https://is.gd/ig1r34>). The
situation is such that for a long time there's a lot of noise about the
issue, but the issue itself steadily remains unresolved. I tend to view
it so that the true purpose of the noise is that it provides some kind
of "psychological compensation" to those who feel disadvantaged, but it
doesn't solve the issue itself in real life. There's no real progress,
but there's a noise, simulation and falsehood.
The latter is what the American "progressivism" seems to be really about:
it speaks nice, it begets attractive expectations, but it doesn't really
solve real issues except it helps keep the populace in loyalty to the
elite corporate management (which in turn seeks to employ this "soft
power" for support of the American hegemony in the world context).
It depends on whether one is talking about "mean" or "medium".
"Mean" income of black does improve a lot. But "medium" is a different
story.
And then there is the entertainment industry which is progressive among
all progressives. It is dong the utmost in making black respectable and fashionable. So much so that Kim Kadashian, with Armenian father and German-Irish mother, is trying hard to pass herself as a black.
Today, African Americans is not a single group, it is fractured at least
into 4 groups. A large middle-class class society; a large, relatively speaking, hopeless group ; a small super-rich and powerful elites who dominate the headlines. They are often admired by both black and white.
And then there are mixed-raced people and newly immigrated blacks.
Racial discrimination is still widespread but a lot of subtle as you have correctly described.
ltlee1, <news:ee86ebec-d8b8-4035...@googlegroups.com>
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 5:11:22 PM UTC-4, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
| <https://tinyurl.com/2lnp7aj5> globaltimes.cn
|
| The open discrimination of the past has since evolved into a more
| subtle one .. What's worse, issues that emerged in the US in recent
| years suggest that the human rights situation of African Americans
| has even become worse in many ways. The US has become "most-racial"
| rather than "post-racial."
|
| For instance, the problem of police brutality against African
| Americans has triggered protests from the black community in recent
| years. Economically, black Americans had, on average, one-sixth the
| wealth of white Americans in 2019 on a per capita basis, and that
| gap is still widening ..
What this article forgets to mention is the fact that the very last
decades in the US have passed with an increase of "liberal progressive"
narratives in the political and media mainstream.
Historically, the American "liberal left" evolved also as a deliberate
counter-weight to the Soviet "communism", so that it always was pretty
cautious to touch on the topics of economic management/justice, keeping
the "capitalist system" untouched in basics. Instead, their main focus
was on various inequalities of non-economic nature: race, women, sexual
identity. In particular, the anti-racist narratives became predominant
in the US pretty long ago, after the civil rights movement in the 1960s. >>
Nevertheless, the dry statistics show that in the recent decades the
wealth gap between "white" and "black" Americans stays the same or even
worsens (e.g. <https://is.gd/XUCAjC> <https://is.gd/ig1r34>). The
situation is such that for a long time there's a lot of noise about the
issue, but the issue itself steadily remains unresolved. I tend to view
it so that the true purpose of the noise is that it provides some kind
of "psychological compensation" to those who feel disadvantaged, but it
doesn't solve the issue itself in real life. There's no real progress,
but there's a noise, simulation and falsehood.
The latter is what the American "progressivism" seems to be really about: >> it speaks nice, it begets attractive expectations, but it doesn't really >> solve real issues except it helps keep the populace in loyalty to the
elite corporate management (which in turn seeks to employ this "soft
power" for support of the American hegemony in the world context).
It depends on whether one is talking about "mean" or "medium".
"Mean" income of black does improve a lot. But "medium" is a different story.
And then there is the entertainment industry which is progressive among
all progressives. It is dong the utmost in making black respectable and fashionable. So much so that Kim Kadashian, with Armenian father and German-Irish mother, is trying hard to pass herself as a black.
Today, African Americans is not a single group, it is fractured at least into 4 groups. A large middle-class class society; a large, relatively speaking, hopeless group ; a small super-rich and powerful elites who dominate the headlines. They are often admired by both black and white.
And then there are mixed-raced people and newly immigrated blacks.
Racial discrimination is still widespread but a lot of subtle as you have correctly described.Indeed, the entertainment industry promotes the pro-"black"/pro-"color" fashions (as well as pro-women / anti-men ones). Although, in this field,
the "blackness" became fashionable even before the public discourse in
the US became predominantly anti-racist. "Black" fashions significantly influenced development of some musical genres since the 19th century.
The official data <https://is.gd/hSeLvh> reports disparity by Mean about
4, while disparity by Median about 6-8. It means wealth inequality within
the American "black" community is higher against "whites". Relatively
small group of rich and those super-rich, as you have written, improves "mean" more than it improves "median".
The fact a small group of prosperous "blacks" maintains fashionable image
and "dominates the headlines" is what I've interpreted as "psychological compensation" (for those more regular "blacks" who are not doing as well), and the fact the entertainment industry seeks to make "blacks" fashionable may be, within the US context, good in itself, but it has no impact on
lives of most average people, as the statistics (not only wealth but also crime, health, education etc) show the gap keeps persistent over decades.
This situation does not look quite healthy to me.
Or at least it's not something that could claim to be really progressive.
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