re: Dennis Prager on why poverty does NOT cause crime

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My paternal grandparents were extremely poor immigrants from Russia. They lived in a small apartment in Brooklyn where they raised four children, none of whom, of course, ever had their own room. Moreover, my grandfather was a tailor, and as such made little during normal years, and next to nothing during the Great Depression. They were considerably poorer than the vast majority of Americans who lived below the poverty line as it existed when I was in college and graduate school. And they would have regarded most of those designated poor today as middle class, if not rich by the standards of their day.

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The part that is blaringly omitted is that Prager's family was white. At that exact same time as when his grandparents were making good, black American citizens were being routinely terrorized by their own government and fellow citizens. Black American citizens were being intentionally denied the pursuits of the very same things that Prager's grandparents were able to take as givens. Hell, black Americans might not have even been allowed to live in that same small apartment in Brooklyn. And they didn't have the luxury of just melting into the population after 1 generation, as their black skin remained an obvious fact of life.