(09-07-2019 03:15 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 02:43 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 01:40 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  This was my original post: "Speaking of the NFL and racial injustice... just look at their sport. In many ways it is a black man's game when you look at racial participation. Then you look at the owners/executives and the numbers don't at all reflect the players on the field."

How is that a sign of racial injustice?
How and why should it be different?
And why is the reason that it is not racial injustice?

Well... America's long history of racial inequality has strongly contributed to the enormous racial wealth gap that we have always seen in our country.
This article provides some good background on this topic:
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/r...ds/585325/
Of all the teams in the NFL and NBA, you find only one majority-owner who is African-American (Michael Jordan). One must have an enormous amount of wealth to purchase a franchise in one of these leagues. That's why I think the lack of African-American ownership in these leagues where the athletes are predominantly African-American points to an example of racial injustice.

Well, I could say that discriminates against me because I don't have the great wealth that I would need to buy a pro sports team.

As far as the black-white income and wealth gaps, I think that is mostly because of the large number of poor blacks. And I would argue that a couple of aspects of our welfare system are largely to blame:
1) We subsidize single mothers and end up with a huge and growing percentage of black children born out of wedlock and living in single-parent households, and I think it is pretty well established that children do better coming from two-parent homes; and
2) We withdraw benefits as income increases, the the extent that a head of household loses roughly $1 to taxes and lost benefits for every additional dollar he/she earns (100% "effective tax rate"), from about $15,000 to about $55,000, a "welfare trap" or "poverty trap" that strongly disincentivizes work (or alternatively encourages gaming the system).

Add to that our drug laws that disproportionately imprison black youths, and you've pretty much ensured that, at least statistically, there will be a significant gap.

I had a somewhat unique experience, growing up in a small Alabama town that had a) a large Jewish population, and b) two black families that were multi-millionaires. Needless to say, the KKK was not popular in our city. But I know from that experience that black people can get rich, and I was also very personally aware of the extraordinarily strong role of family in black life and culture, something with I see as lost to the proliferation of fatherless families mentioned above.

I have proposed certain legal, tax, and welfare approaches that I believe would be better, in part because I believe they would address these situations over time.