20 years in america, black incarceration has plummeted, black home ownership has increased, black prosperity has increased. and if you break it down even further, from african americans to african.to black immigrants immigrants from the caribbean, immigrants from africa, immigrants from the caribbean and immigrants from africa have extremely low rates of incarceration, extremely high rates of home ownership, extremely high incomes. if america was a systemically racist society, how is an entire branch of black americans, who happen to be immigrants overwhelmingly, are succeeding and thriving in this culture that s allegedly systemically racist? and it is black americans who are the descendants of slavery that are being left behind. it is clearly not a issue of race, it is an issue of culture, it is an issue of our history and it is an issue that we should take very seriously and work to sit there and make better. i am not opposed to that whatsoever. you can go to large areas of. you.
of data, and it seems to me there is a very clear pattern which suggest that the judicial, policing and penal systems are built in a way which works against black people. i think that they work against, i think that that is an incomplete idea of the data. i think they work against poor people. i think they work against working class people and there happens to be a greater population of working class and poor people among the black population. among working class whites, though, it is huge rates of incarceration, it s huge rates of single fathers, single motherhood, huge rates of college and high school dropouts. but if you look at the trajectory in the last 20 years in america, black incarceration has plummeted, black home ownership has increased, black prosperity has increased. and if you break it down even further, from african americans to african.to black immigrants immigrants from the caribbean, immigrants from africa, immigrants from the caribbean and immigrants from africa ha