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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by MertsA on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:04AM (#13461091)
To be fair, that doesn't necessarily mean that the US is statistically racist, whatever that means. Societal racism in the past, immigration, etc can lead to a situation where a particular race will still be behind generations later in terms of wealth. It takes money to make money.

I think you're right that there's still societal racism in America but just looking at wealth doesn't account for immigration or past racism.

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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by CaptSpify on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:00PM (#13465406)
This is a good point. I guess you could call it "momentum" of a sort, but I'm not sure if it would be possible to get any real numbers on that. I'd love to hear ideas about how to do that though.
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