Ehhh this article is half bullshit half true. But in its entirety you can see the problems black people face in America, these problems aren’t fixed in some mumbo jumbo feel good mentor program. For any Africans reading this will be very informative to you. Basically after being stolen and forced to work for free or die for 400+ years, black people faced STATE sponsored oppression and terrorism. Centuries of terrorism by violent whites mob beating, bombing , shooting etc black women, men and children alike.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/26/lynchings-me...

At the same time complete segregation in society , as you can imagine there is practically no upper movement for majority of blacks during this time . They went to worst schools, worst universities, every single thing was better for a white person than it was for a black person you virtually couldn’t do anything at all. Not to mention that segregation ended ONLY 56 years ago ! Also, don’t forget this is all STATE SPONSORED.

Now fast forward a little bit and you have state sponsored red lining . For those who aren’t aware red lining is basically black people denied financial and medical services. Basically a bank would draw a line on a map and deny anyone living above that line a loan (obviously those above that line were blacks) . They would loan to a lower income white rather than a middle income or high income black . There was also predatory reverse redlining where banks would go into black areas and lend at higher interests rates etc . Common sense could tell you what the impact of these government programs of oppression have been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Fast forward a little more and you have the US industrial prison complex , and the Richard Nixon’s “war on drugs” which devastated the black community . Read this to learn more and for pretty graphs.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-shocking-and-sickening-st...

Now you bottle this all up with terribly under funded schools, racism , unfair portrayal in media and films I can go on and on . How the fuck is a mentor going to help? This article is stupid feel good shit, if the US wanted to help it’s citizens they forcefully brought from Africa centuries ago they would have done so by now, they don’t have the intentions and instead have repeatedly shown they will support programs of oppression. You want to give black people a fair chance build some schools, give them funding , hire competent teachers , remove the drug dealers and gang leaders you allow to run rampant the same way you remove leaders of countries or hunt down taliban leaders in remote deserts.

This is the reality of the situation all of you Asians, whites , Indians etc comparing your situation is absolutely positively completely unrelatable.

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