On: Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

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>ultimately resolves to income inequality, which in America is only really a problem because of racism.

Income inequality is not restricted to minorities.

There are more white people living in poverty/prison than any other racial group.

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Then let's talk privilege. America's underclass is created not just by income inequality, but also by the collective belief by those not in the underclass that the underclass is worthless. If this were not the case, then they wouldn't continually create policies to keep them down.

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Indeed, Dr. King realized in his final years that to truly solve racism, we must resolve classism and extreme materialism.

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MLK's national "Poor People's Campaign" had tangible goals for this as well:

* $30 billion annual appropriation for a real war on poverty

* Congressional passage of full employment and guaranteed income legislation [a guaranteed annual wage]

* Construction of 500,000 low-cost housing units per year until slums were eliminated

(From here: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/history/)

Some updated variation on this would still make a big impact if implemented today.

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Andrew Yang 2020 has policies that are inspired by what MLK promoted. The $1000 monthly "freedom dividend" will definitely be a game changer for poor minorities.

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>will definitely be a game changer for poor minorities.

What about poor people in general, regardless of skin color?