• novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one
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    8 days ago

    It’s always white people who are against non-whites becoming billionaires and millionaires. Whites say they want opportunities for non-whites to be successful, but they do nit support entrepreneurs so that a dark skinned person works towards becoming a multimillionaire from their merits.

        • SeanBrently@lemm.ee
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          6 days ago

          Well I don’t know if I am convinced that’s true, but even so, I think we have different definitions of “merit”. Like, didn’t Jesus say something about the difficulty of getting rich men into heaven?

          But more to the point, it seems to me that if we supported more brown and black people in their financial aspirations, and if we had more Black and Latino and Asian representation in the millionaire community, would anything be different? I don’t think so, we’d just have more black and brown and Asian people trying to maintain income inequality and the power structures of oppression.

          Because it’s not just about race, but class.

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            6 days ago

            Someone with a couple million isn’t rich. Not anymore. A million isn’t what it used to be. If you can accumulate it over the career of a mundane office job, you’re not rich. He’ll, even high earning professionals like doctors still need to work for their money.

            You’re kneecapping your own class when you draw arbitrary lines like that based on financial information you don’t understand. You’re attacking your fellow workers, by lumping them in with the actual capital owners.

    • Universal Monk@lonestarlemmy.mooo.comOP
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      7 days ago

      I think that’s an overgeneralization. I’m bi-racial. To blame one skin color, regardless of the color, and say all of a particular group do this or do that, is incorrect. Thanks!