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Re:UBI in Oakland is the first program only for people of color by zo1 on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:23PM (#26675551)
> "If the system is equal, why is there a wealth gap between black people and white people?"

A perfectly logical and unbiased reason for this could be that it takes time to equalize (a lot of wealth is passed on between generations). Just because "discrimination" and other things ended, doesn't mean the next generation magically does the same as other groups. And this has nothing to do with racism in the present.

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Re:UBI in Oakland is the first program only for people of color by Miner49er on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:01PM (#26685511)
Well, this is a fine answer, but by definition, that means that the system is still racist while it is equalizing. The whole idea of things like this UBI is to speed it up. It's also very questionable that it will equalize without some sort of outside force acting on it (like this type of thing).
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