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To: tcmay who wrote (144335)9/28/2001 12:01:26 PM
From: muzosi  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Twenty-five years ago the "Boat People"... None of this is politically correct, but it's the unvarnished truth

actually i don't disagree with this observation but you are missing a very important statistical anomaly here. the people who arrive at the us are by definition a self-selected very driven ambitious group of people who take all the risks to get here. it is very reasonable that they will do well here. percentage wise there are more than enough black people who show the same initiative here in the us. when you talk about boat people you have to ask why the rest are still sitting in their countries, getting subsistence protein, earning less than a $1 a day and doing nothing with their lives. why don't they get off their ass and come to us in boats?
iow, when you compare a very small, selected group of people to a large society the statistic will be hugely skewed. this is what the non-pc extreme right does in this country. you go find a single black woman who has found a job by the grace and use it as an example to put millions of people into poverty without thinking whether there are really jobs these people can get.

so your truth is as varnished as any but this time it is varnished by the extreme racist view which put these people into slavery by claiming they were inferior and forbid them using the same water fountain as you.
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