| | | >There can be no benign reason in the eyes of liberals who are focused on equalizing outcomes instead of equalizing opportunity.
Opportunity isn't anywhere NEAR equal here. For instance, if you're born into the bottom fifth in income and you get a college degree, you're less likely than someone from the top fifth without a college degree to end up in the top fifth.
>The reason why the NBA is majority black with very few Asians is the reason most people want to avoid mentioning in public. Black people tend to be taller and more athletic than Asians. I still remember waiting in line for a Korea vs. Japan baseball game in Anaheim. I remember being able to see the top of most people's heads, and I'm not THAT tall.
Not sure about that. On a macro scale, height seems to be largely about nutritional and environmental factors... You're talking about Koreans and Japanese from Asia, who don't have the same factors we have here. What would really be relevant would be data on average height of Asian-Americans third generation and beyond. I can't find any, can you?
>As for why towns still exhibit racial segregation, that's mainly due to people of a given race tending to hang out with their own.
Would you stay in a ghetto given the opportunity just because other people there looked like you? I know I certainly wouldn't.
>Koreans tend to congregate around the "Koreatowns" of every metropolitan area; there's no active conspiracy here to exclude other races (even though 1st-generation Korean immigrants can be very racist).
But they won't in a couple of generations, I'm sure. They're still at the point where many share the same first language and the original businesses they had when they first came here. That is likely to change.
>You should know better than anyone else where Jews like to hang out; that's not the result of anti-Semites zoning Jews in certain areas, correct?
Actually, until the fifties, when American finally decided that Jews were "white," Jews did live in pretty restricted areas. But once that happened, and additionally, the kids all spoke English as their first language and they made money, they dispersed. There were plenty of neighborhoods and towns in which Jews were not permitted to live until the second half of the twentieth century, in some cases (like Darien, CT), until pretty late in the century.
>Remember how Ray Nagin wanted New Orleans to be a "chocolate city"? Why is that not deemed "racist" by the mainstream media? What about the history of New Orleans and the Cajuns who immigrated there from Canada?
He was being cutesy. And that city was largely black at the time. Now, would I call it that? Probably not.
>This is just a small sample of the many factors leading to racial segregation these days.
Except they're pretty wrong.
>You can't just paint all of these factors with a broad brush and call it "racism" because that's both oversimplifying the problem and being overly judgmental.
Not until you've actually done research into the subject. Once again, redlining, white flight, sundown towns, etc, are real things. Read up.
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