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like white families have been able to build wealth for their children and
grandchildren because of the opportunities they had for low interest rates,
college educations, good jobs, and investments, restrictions on Blacks’ freedom
and opportunity for loans have tended to push their descendants further into
poverty. Consequences of slavery and Jim Crow laws are still affecting opportunities
today. I've seen a lot of people I know reject the fact that business are sometimes skipping over white candidates for less-qualified black ones, because they need to improve their diversity statistics. While that is hard to swallow sometimes, it is true that systemic problems require systemic solutions. This view helped convince me to be willing to hear out systemic solutions, even if they don't benefit me.
