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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by mensetmanusman on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:09PM (#36528686)
Slavery systematically destroyed the family unit of slaves because it was a risk to the power structure. If there was any indication of healthy family structures forming they would split for children and men from women.
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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by onos on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:06PM (#36529211)
But blacks had high marriage rates until relatively recently.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-pa...

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by RajT88 on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:43AM (#36530960)
That's not quite what that study says...
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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by RajT88 on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:45AM (#36530973)
Slavery did that for sure.

But one wouldn't reasonably expect that to continue, no? The critics who say "slavery was a long time ago" have a point on this one. Humans getting married is very normal - if you disrupt that for a generation or two, you'd still expect it to resume. We are many generations past slavery.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by mensetmanusman on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:17AM (#36535355)
The cultural forces behind monogamous family units has weakened quite a bit. It's not super surprising that they can't pick themselves up by their boot straps in short order.
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