Submitted 2 days ago by Grimreaper@sopuli.xyz to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Black, Asian, Mexican, and Indian etc. billionaires should use their wealth to help minority communities, especially if they are “new money” and didn’t come from wealthy families, but they are classist and don’t care about the poor people in their own group.
Because it was never a race war, it was a class war disguised as a race war by the rich tricking the poor into fighting each other.
That would be because most wealthy people believe that they did something to “earn” their wealth and that poor people just need to work harder. They refuse to admit that their wealth is built off of the backs of others and a good amount of luck. This also explains a good chunk of Republican policy decisions.
Can’t help but remember that one time O.W. Gurley bought some 40 acres of land and sold it only to blacks, helping to start what would become known as Black Wall Street. Only for it to burned down in the Tulsa race massacre.
Which is not to say it shouldn’t be tried again.
Surely you of all people understand not giving a damn about others
They don’t see themselves as part of that group anymore unless it’s convenient to.
Make charity obsolete!
Once a minority becomes rich, they stop being a minority in their eyes.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wealthy people
of colorshould helpminoritiesstruggling people but they choose not to.FTFY
chosensilence@pawb.social 2 days ago
that is a separate statement. this is highlighting minority groups supporting minority groups. please respect the discussion being made around that instead of smugly correcting. bean soup theory at work, jfc. not every statement is exclusionary because it doesn’t address your personal viewpoint.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The original post suggests that only a certain category (minorities) wealthy people should help people of their own race. That statement itself is biased towards certain races…
All wealthy people should be at least partly helping struggling people in some way, shape or form, regardless of color. They should just straight up tax the rich a wealth tax to help people in need.
To make it about race and/or skin color is itself … racist …
Tax the rich yo, what’s any of this got to do with color?