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{sniffle, Sniffle} I don't believe it Pioneer and I agree on something. In the background I hear angels singing and see the clouds parting to reveal the sun and a beautiful rainbow. Strike the in every race bit and we'd be in 100% agreement. I did not know that you were white @Tanny in another post I suggested that you were a younger to explain why you were less pessimistic. But but whiteness would explain it as well. The reality is that young white people have a lot more to be optimistic about in these United States.

Hi Tanny, I suspect that you are less pessimistic because you are probably younger than the Brothers you are conversing with here. I could be wrong but I doubt it. As a result, we have witnessed and experienced more. In fact we probably have studied the subject longer and perhaps know a bit more. But that does not mean we, at least not I, have given up all hope. I continue to fight in my corner of the world, but it is really hard. I just listened to an interview I did about my website back in 2001 and things cautioned back in 2001 have only gotten worse. We have lost so much that younger people don't even realize it, because as far as they know the internet has always been controlled by a handful of large corporations and Black people have only made money due to the largess of these sites. Young people are excited about the opportunity to go viral on Twitter, while I lament that fact that we have lost what we owned on the web and are at Twitter's mercy, accepting whatever crumbs they throw our way. Do you see why someone older might be more pessimistic @Tanny

Here's an explanation for poverty in all of the races. - 1% of Americans own 40% of America's wealth. - 20% of Americans own 90% of America's wealth. 90%!! - 80% of Americans, you, me, and most everybody we've met, are competing for the last 10%. SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/06/the-richest-1-percent-now-owns-more-of-the-countrys-wealth-than-at-any-time-in-the-past-50-years/?utm_term=.a2a20e2a9c80 That's all there is to it. There's plenty of money available in America. And a small number of people are hogging it. It's amazing how complacent we are about 20% of Americans owning 90% of America's wealth. You have to wonder how high that percentage would have to go before we took it seriously. 95%? 98%? 99.9%? The problem is not that rich people are evil, for most of them made their money in an entirely legal manner. The problem is that we the 80% are stupid. We have 80% of the votes. We have the power to do whatever we want. But we can't get our shit together, and spend most of our time arguing with each other over that last 10% of the economy. We are 21st century feudal serfs, by choice.