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Re:Why People Feel Like Victims by missedthecue on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:57AM (#27072714)
It is true that many people have attributed a wide range issues to it, on offentimes shaky reasoning, but there are also very clear examples of codified rules and laws keeping minority races down, for instance the minimum wage.
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Re:Why People Feel Like Victims by theonlybutlet on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:59PM (#27081775)
The minimum wage keeps poor people down. That doesn't make it systemically racist.
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Re:Why People Feel Like Victims by missedthecue on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:26AM (#27084469)
It was first implemented locally in the reconstruction era south to keep blacks from competing with white labor.

Later, in the 1920s, African Americans had a higher rate of employment than White Americans! But after the federal minimum wage passed, their economic power was destroyed and has yet to recover.

Today, most people don't consider it as having anything to do with race, but when it was first put on the books, it was specifically designed to hurt them.

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