Michael F Schundler
2 min readSep 17, 2020

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In light of the fact, that there is a good chance that if Biden's is elected that by 2024 half of the Presidents since 2008 have been African American, that other minority groups like Hispanics, who are more numerous than African Americans and Asians who are collectively more successful financially may wonder exactly what the issue is.

Attempts to call our system systematically racist simply do not measure up when you realize that many minorities including African minorities like Nigerian immigrants have experienced greater economic success than "privileged" whites.

When you did deeper you realize the BLM movement is more about class warfare than racism in this country. Underlying that class warfare has been poor education and inadequate law enforcement in predominantly poor inner city neighborhoods. Move outside those neighborhoods and while cases of racism exist, they go both ways... like the time I was beat up for being white.

Similarly I see a great deal of diversity and racial intermarriage in the suburbs suggesting that factors other than skin color drive relationships. My wife is Asian and my son married an African woman many shades darker than the average African American. My daughter had her child with a Caribbean African.

What you will notice about both Obama and Harris is that they did not grow up in African American neighborhoods and benefited from good educations. And those educations gave them access to success, that inner city African American children don't have. They are both "biracial" and so I suspect they like my children don't see the world the way African Americans do, but rather as my children do... I doubt Kamala Harris chose her husband based on his skin color nor did he choose her based on skin color.

When Americans especially inner city African Americans see that their local politicians are the primary people holding them back by providing them inadequate law enforcement and poor schools and act on that... then they will begin to enjoy the success other "identify groups" have.

Asians, Jews, and Nigerians came to this country with a huge advantage over other minorities and whites... that advantage is a culture strongly rooted in the value of education, which are the keys to success in this country. The rest of us need to wake up smell the coffee and as Ben Carson's mom realized as a single mother cleaning the houses of the wealthy, that the big advantage the wealthy have is they have discovered the power of education...

Coming home after that she began to require her sons to read a book every week and write a book report even though she could not even read their reports... both children are American success stories... Ben Carson far more than the average child even though he started out the child of poor single African American mother.

If you go back in history just 60 years, you will find how the Cuban population has excelled in this country... again through education. So we have sub groups of every race who have excelled in America... all the same way... education.

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