Conservative "White People" are Driven by Envy and Resentment

[RedAkston]

I don't think I've seen more stupidity crammed into an OP in the entire existence of DP.

Congratulations?

 

[Peacenik]

An excellent post. Although I have a long way to go with regard to practicing gratefulness, I've cut back on expenses with the motive of investing the difference. I don't consider it a sacrifice.

Part of gratefulness is being grateful to self for allowing self to simply enjoy life, enjoy the passage of time. For not worrying about what others think. for realizing others can be wrong. Such as all those others who are so caught up in chasing wealth they can't be happy. Look at Donald. A very sad man. His whole life is a stressful swirl of trying to impress and missing opportunities to enjoy. So obsessed with wealth he can't let anyone close enough to be a real friend. He has placed himself on such a high pedestal he is suspicious of everyone he fears might attack him or try to rip him off. What a tragic life and waste of such great potential.

 

[Peacenik]

"Excellent Commentary" !!!

It's amazing. The responses to that post are either in great approval or great disapproval. Ambivalence is scarce.

 

[Peacenik]

Do you think that most people who buy expensive cars do it to show off? I don't. I think most people buy them for 3 reasons:
1. In the case of expensive high performance cars, they are bought for the sheer thrill of the very quick acceleration and great handling that they provide. In essence, they are very fun to drive.
2. Some people buy an expensive luxury car to treat themselves after they feel they have "made it", ie; recieved that big promotion at work, or their business finally took off and became really successful.
3. Some people buy an expensive luxury car to be chauffeured around in because A. They don't like driving and can afford a chauffeur, B. Are really old and can't drive themselves, and want luxury, and C. They are businesspersons who need to be chauffeured so that they can conduct business in the backseat.

Now, do some people buy expensive cars just to show off? Well maybe a few. But I think the "show offs" are the ones who create crazy-looking cars like intricately painted low-riders with the tiny wire wheels and hydraulics that make them hop and jump, and the "donks" with the crazy huge wheels. That's showing off.

Most Americans are skinny on cash because they have over extended themselves. This creates undue stress. If someone can afford and justify paying cash for an expensive car and they simply want it for themselves, that's one thing. But to be strung out on payments and arguing over money makes happiness fleeting.

The metric is not simply whether or not the car is paid for. It could be wise to finance a purchase even if one can afford to pay cash if the financing is low cost due to good credit and the cash will generate a better ROI if invested wisely.

Financing an expensive car that one cannot afford to pay cash for is unwise if a lower priced vehicle could serve as well. Happiness is difficult to achieve and maintain with the stress of high debt and technical bankruptcy just a paycheck away.

It is difficult to explain the feeling of well being which ensues after wise budgeting pays off the house and frees up the budget to be able to buy anything one wishes within reason. Getting a nice car at that point is well justified if that's what makes one happy.

There are people who are able to buy a nice car for cash but don't do so until they buy and pay off a house. Even before doing so, just the knowledge of having a long range financial plan is a feeling of contentment. Fewer things to worry about makes happiness easier to come by.

Consider a job site. A building is being constructed. There are lots of pick up trucks parked outside. Several of them are high dollar. Very impressive. Are they really needed? Can they be justified? Are all the people working there in such a good financial position to be spending 50K - 75K for a vehicle? Or are some of those trucks simply purchased because the worker doesn't want to show up at the job site in an old beater minivan which could possibly serve the same purpose just as well. It would be hard to feel content with life if working just to try to keep up with $800 a month car payments and never really getting ahead of it.

The person with his/her budget together can easily take a little ribbing over showing up in a diminutive vehicle with the knowledge that it is part of a sound long range financial plan. It's easy to forgo the pride of arriving in an impressive vehicle when content that wisdom weights impressing others very low and taking care of self very high. Occasional comments around the work site or at parties are not worth as much as really having one's life smartly together.

 

[element94]

This gets to the deeper theory of what I call race-blaming, and it's a sign of low self esteem and personal weakness. I'll provide some practical examples:

Whites blaming Asians/Jews for making more money and being smarter than them: This isn't because Asians/Jews are better, it's because whites are stupid.
Nazis and skinheads blaming Jews: It's not because Jews are superior, it's because Nazis are too stupid.
Blacks blaming whites: It's not that whites are better, it's because Blacks are stupid.
Lack of "affordable" housing: It's not that houses are too expensive, it's that you're too stupid to make the money to afford it.

It's rather embarrasing. Whenever we say one race is taking advantage of another, we're essentially saying the other race is stupid and being taken advantage of. For the record, as a white, if I blamed any other race for my problems it would be an insult to my race and my own responsibility. I expect the same of other races.

Well "race-blaming" is legitimate if there is historical reason, and I would put slavery in that category. Whites kept many thousands of fellow human beings as slaves and you will never wash that away by stopping it from being included in your history lessons.
And then there's the white envy that came with freeing the slaves, and many still cannot get over it. It's also historically correct to say that blacks have been marginalized in society by whites since their freedom in the 1860s. Can't have them get too much success, or, god forbid, more success than a white person, huh?

 

[independentusa]

Conservative "White Skin People" are Driven by Envy and Resentment.

Their ancestry brought it with them from their feudal and barbarous regions they came from in Europe and pass it down through the generations. The core of their feudal mentality is always filled with ENVY AND RESENTMENT WRAPPED IN JEALOUSLY.
For 100's of years this has always been the group who hates to see any other have something, achieve something or have the ability to do something, the other does not have, or cannot do.

• They hate to see liberal minded white people have things they themselves don't have, they even hate to see their fellow conservative right wing people have what they don't have;
  • and they certainly hate to see black and brown people, and single women achieve anything.

LBJ exposed the mentality of their envy and resentment clearly to the entire nation:

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said,

• "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

MLK spoke about them in clear terms:

• "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Since the creation of these Web based Forums, we've seen right wing and conservative white people's envy and resentment repeatedly, 24/7/365.
- One can likely not find threads where these types don't show up. They can't help themselves, they have to display their envy and resentment about anything and everything.
It's been the basis of their biases, their bigotry and their racism, gender madness, and lifestyle attacks. It's the foundation of their Political Vile, they can't stand the fact that every American gets "one vote each'.

THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO FACE THESE REALITY WITHIN THEMSELVES, AND SMART PEOPLE WILL WORK TO DIMINISH THEIR MENTALITY OF ENVY AND RESENTMENT, AND THEY CAN LEARN HOW TO REDUCE THE FEARS THAT FEED JEALOUSY.

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Charlie Munger Says Hardships Faced In His Day Were 'Unbelievable,' But People Today Are Miserable, Despite Having it Easy — He Blames Envy

Addressing attendees at the annual meeting of the Daily Journal, the 99-year-old highlighted his own formative years during the 1930s. Munger recalled the profound challenges Americans faced during the Great Depression, expressing his surprise at the comparatively lower levels of happiness observed today.

Munger explained, "It's weird for somebody my age, because I was in the middle of the Great Depression when the hardship was unbelievable."

Studies prove Munger is right — Americans aren't as happy as they once were. The General Social Survey, which has been assessing American happiness levels since 1972, reveals a recent shift. Prior to the pandemic, more people reported being "very happy" than "not too happy." But in the latest survey, a record 24% expressed being "not too happy," while a record low of 19% claimed to be "very happy."

Munger also expressed concern about the role envy plays in people's lives today. He pointed out that before the 1800s, life was more challenging, lacking basic comforts and conveniences such as the printing press, air conditioning and modern medicine. Munger's comments highlight the significant progress made in recent centuries.

According to him, "It is the nature of our species that we look around us at other people and are envious of them if they have more than we do.

I lived down South for many years and I find this to be absolutely true. The best example is the riot by whites that burned down the black area of Tulsa. It was done because of envy of those who lived and prospered there. If you do not believe that it continues even until today, you are being very naive. Look at the people who marched through Charlottesville chanting that "Jews will not replace us". Of listen to white supremacy groups complaining that the people of color are destroying the "American" culture, better known as white western Christian culture.

 

[Maidenrules29]

I lived down South for many years and I find this to be absolutely true. The best example is the riot by whites that burned down the black area of Tulsa. It was done because of envy of those who lived and prospered there. If you do not believe that it continues even until today, you are being very naive. Look at the people who marched through Charlottesville chanting that "Jews will not replace us". Of listen to white supremacy groups complaining that the people of color are destroying the "American" culture, better known as white western Christian culture.

These people you are talking about are a crazy fringe minority. If most white conservatives were that nutty and racist it would already have manifested itself.

 

[Rickeroo]

Well "race-blaming" is legitimate if there is historical reason, and I would put slavery in that category. Whites kept many thousands of fellow human beings as slaves and you will never wash that away by stopping it from being included in your history lessons.
And then there's the white envy that came with freeing the slaves, and many still cannot get over it. It's also historically correct to say that blacks have been marginalized in society by whites since their freedom in the 1860s. Can't have them get too much success, or, god forbid, more success than a white person, huh?

There's a difference between history as a subject versus history being used for present-day justifications, generalizations and characterizations.

 

[RealityNow]

Since there are only two parties and a myriad of economic and social issues, people aren't going to fit in neatly into the media-contrived, rigid platform/demographics of a particular party. You're not the only one to think republican voters were poor.

I've gone republican since 1996, primarily based on personal economics. It dissapoints me that republicans tend to drag religion into their platform. I'm equally dissapointed with the democrats bringing race into theirs.

Actually, when you think about it, Religion an Race has always been in the spheres. Even from the days of slavery when white plantation owners used the Bible and their concept of Religion, which was entrenched in Racist Ideology.
Today, the Republican push their Religion even still as their lead and Democrats are exposing how much racism infected everything in America and still both religion and race is still being addressed.

Remember:
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Jim Crow laws touched every aspect of everyday life. For example, in 1935, Oklahoma prohibited black and white people from boating together. Boating implied social equality. In 1905, Georgia established separate parks for black people and white people. In 1930, Birmingham, Alabama, made it illegal for black people and white people to play checkers or dominoes together.
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It's only been 59 yrs since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We still have many people ho are 59 and older, who grew up in their formative years with Jim Crow, who never made the transition to change, and some taught what they learned in their formative years to their offspring's. So, that helped carry forth many elements from the past.

The discussion of both Religion and Race has to be addressed, because they were historically intertwined for 100's of years. Neither the old ways of Right Wing Religion and Racism, cannot be the foundation of the future. Neither can there be one group claiming their views of religion, are better than any other people and their views of religion. Neither can we continue with the divisiveness based on Race and Ethnicity be the foundations of the Future.

When WE are out in public, yes, we can see the skin tone of people, but what we also see, is the reality that we all face the same challenges in what it takes to make our lives productive and to take care of our living basics, enjoin family and have friends.

 

[Super Chief]

Sorry if some people got their feelings hurt a bit during the long march forward in world history. Things could be a lot worse than they are now.

Without White males, all of you here would be posting these messages on dried animal skins or by smoke signal.

 

[Rickeroo]

The discussion of both Religion and Race has to be addressed, because they were historically intertwined for 100's of years.

Religion and race, when used as weapons against other religions and races, can't uplift anyone in a capitalistic society. Only individuals can be uplifted, not groups. Let's say that religion and race were used since 1619 for the express purpose of uplifting white people. How can there be poor whites in the Kentucky hills? Did they not benefit from slavery as well?

The existence of poor whites makes the race/religion argument very difficult to employ in a practical sense.

 

[RealityNow]

These people you are talking about are a crazy fringe minority. If most white conservatives were that nutty and racist it would already have manifested itself.

We work and live around people who claim conservatism, but not all of them harbor or embrace racism... I do feel bad that they have been misled to think there is such a thing as "small government" or that there will ever be such a thing as 'small government", and I feel bad they have been misled to think they have some lock on "fiscal concerns'. Bills and Measures are passed in Congress, and there has never been a Republican who did not go back to their constituency and take credit for bills and measures they stood against, when those bills and measures are designed and bring benefit to "the people, the state and the nation".

I feel bad for Conservatives who stand against the wealthy paying their taxes, because it is the wealthy who find ways to fleece the government of tax resources, because the average working citizen does not have the means and access to get and fleece government contracts.
https://rundownbulletin.com/opinion/173960.html

• In a recent article that spoke about destroying chemical weapons, the projected cost was claimed to be $1.4 Billion, but it turned into $42 Billion, it is highly unlikely that any working class people, got those contracts or that any working class people benefitted the lions share of that $42 Billion. That money was primarily in the hands of the wealthy contractors and the workers employed earned only a small % of that $42 billion.

American biggest budget issue, is it shipped away 1000's of Industries and Closed down 10's of thousands of large and small industrial manufacturing business, that not only cost people jobs, but it cost the revenue generated by those business as well as the tax revenues that came from the businesses and the people who once earned wages working in those businesses.

We practically gave that to China and Others, then we complain when they took that wealth creation those industries generated, and began to use it for their own national agenda. Result, we became dependent on China to buy our Debt, and we to this day also continue to rely on Imports from China, for things we could have build and made here in the U.S.

There is no Fiscal Conservatism, as those same ones that speak of it, are the same ones who supported and endorsed the exodus of Industry away from this country. Seeking low wage labor on foreign shores, resulted to turn America into a low wage country itself, and led to the people having more reliance on government programs, when there was is no longer the level of industry to keep people working and to fund those programs for the people who need them.
We'd have lesser people using public service programs if we had kept our Industry, and we would not have strained our programs to help so many people who had been made unemployed and living based on insufficient wages.

There is no Fiscal Conservatism, its only a concept that deprives people of public assistance by underfunding programs, while the system gives tax breaks to the wealthy.

Trickle down was a fools games played on a society it considered to be foolish enough to fall for it. Society of the working class don't progress under a "trickle", but they can find means to progress when their is a "flow".

• Simple analogy; Send a trickle of water to a farmer, and what you will get to see is their crops dry up.

In the heat of even standard inflation and low wage created challenges, the only thing a trickle will do is, evaporate before the droplets reach the people.

 

[BitterPill]

I am with Rickeroo, Roadvirus, Coyote505, anatta and especially Fletch when it comes to envy and the resentment it causes.

Collectively, they are all receiving a coveted silver MAGA featuring the beautiful Melania -- something to make the vile lib-progs both envious and resentful:

MAGA

 

[CaughtInThe]

It's really because of dancing, sports and sex.

 

[RealityNow]

There's a difference between history as a subject versus history being used for present-day justifications, generalizations and characterizations.

you cannot disconnect history from the present; any more than you can disconnect your childhood grooming from your adult self.

 

[Rickeroo]

you cannot disconnect history from the present; any more than you can disconnect your childhood grooming from your adult self.

This is a disempowering, scarcity mindset. Right out of the gate, one is conditioned to view themselves as being limited by their past. Rather than excercise their immense personal power, they allow default conditions to continue until someone else fixes their problems. This is an extremely inefficient way to uplift a segment of society, as seen in post-aparthied South Africa. Indeed, this mindset is so counter to human nature that it produces harm to the very segment it purports to help.

 

[RealityNow]

Religion and race, when used as weapons against other religions and races, can't uplift anyone in a capitalistic society. Only individuals can be uplifted, not groups. Let's say that religion and race were used since 1619 for the express purpose of uplifting white people. How can there be poor whites in the Kentucky hills? Did they not benefit from slavery as well?

The existence of poor whites makes the race/religion argument very difficult to employ in a practical sense.

Not necessarily. if you know the history, you will know of the Americanized Monetary Based Cast and Class System, you will also know that there was many frames of bias and bigotry among white skin people, the discrimination went around the circle in white skin people it segregated and pit these people against each other, which people = the Polish, The Irish, The Swedish, The German, The French, the Italian and etc... Then there is the religion based bias and bigotry that focused itself on Jews, Muslims, and in some areas on Catholics, and some areas the biases focuses on other religions and Factions of Religion even though some of those religions, claim the same basis of Christianity.
~These ethnicities of white skin people only came together in being bias and bigoted and discriminatory as a grouping, toward non white skin people, especially toward black people, whether they were from the history of slavery or black and brown people who immigrated here.

Today, in many cities, there are communities of Polish people, Irish people, German people and etc... it is especially pronounced in some East Coast and Other Regions of the country.

We are a country of many layers and frames of "Diversity"... it our job to embrace the "Principles" of EQUALITY, to respect the nature and realism of Diversity, and the Right for each layers and frame and Racial and Ethnicity and Religious Diversity which exist within AMERICAN SOCIETY.

 

[RealityNow]

This is a disempowering, scarcity mindset. Right out of the gate, one is conditioned to view themselves as being limited by their past. Rather than excercise their immense personal power, they allow default conditions to continue until someone else fixes their problems. This is an extremely inefficient way to uplift a segment of society, as seen in post-aparthied South Africa. Indeed, this mindset is so counter to human nature that it produces harm to the very segment it purports to help.

It's not about someone "else" fixing anything... It's about ALL OF US Fixing and Dispensing with our long history of biases and bigotry, envy and resentment and the fears that driven jealousies.

There is no sweeping the realisms under the rug, we have a society that has people still this day that were groomed in systems and communities and environments within homes that embraced a variety of biases and bigotry and racial and ethnicity divisiveness.

ANYONE, who goes, has gone to, or understand the role and responsibility of a Therapist, know very well, among the first thing they do is "listen to the peoples story" and then they work backwards to get to the grooming years, so they can learn what groomed and bred the concepts they hold, and the concepts that hold them into the distresses they may be experiencing.

People feel empowered when they embrace understanding. Understanding; its a very comforting and enriching thing, that helps build the confidence that strengthens and advances the personal power within individuals, to embrace their passions and push to find what they equate as successes.

When you talk about people being limited by their past, you should think of the impacts that affect people based on their ancestral past. Poor whites even when one is two generations removed, still many not get accessibility to some of the things that the well to do and wealthy have accessibility as to opportunity. this same has applied to black, its applied to people based on various ethnicity, as well as people based on various Religious Factions.

Human Nature may be simplified to say we are "Social Beings"... but as societies' we have many biases and varying frames and levels of bigotry, and we still have many frames of using discriminating mindsets based on those biases.

I say, that young people are changing the paradigm, they are not ignoring history, they are embracing it, and they are better at understanding how to overcome the divisiveness that was promoted by biases, bigotry, class and cast monetary based segregation as well as racial segregation and as well as ethnicity based segregation.

Folklore over many generations has created many man made prejudices, based on biased based passed along folktales... which many have lived with as food for their concept of values when it comes to race, ethnicity, religion, gender and lifestyles, as well as economic standing, among the many other fractional things people create to keep those biases and prejudicial concept alive.

We can't deny the work that needs to be done. Just because we some who are more enlightened, while some refuse to become enlightened... until we acknowledge that, and understanding that divisiveness, does not promote unity... and what remains divided, generate strife. It's happening, because the internet has given people more access to information, and over time people will learn better how to filter out truth from untruths, because the research capability that the internet makes possible, is something that has never existed to this level in general society, outside of the advanced education system of universities.

 

[element94]

There's a difference between history as a subject versus history being used for present-day justifications, generalizations and characterizations.

Marginalizing an entire race of people who you can no longer vilely control like they were animals is a subject all of us should remember. No problem in justifying that. The marginalizing is what has brought about the present situation you can't seem to grasp.

 

[Rickeroo]

the discrimination went around the circle in white skin people it segregated and pit these people against each other, which people = the Polish, The Irish, The Swedish, The German, The French, the Italian

These ethnicities conformed to, and assimilated with, the Western capitalistic system of the US. Anti-discrimination laws weren't passed, yet they succeded. Bigotry will always be present in human societies, and far too much weight is being put on bigotry as the cause of racial disparity.

I realize that assimilation/individualism is pretty much out of style as of 30-40 years ago, so rather than fight an eventuality, it's best to understand it as it's happening. To ascertain the most likely result, South Africa makes an excellent case study.

 

[RealityNow]

Most Americans are skinny on cash because they have over extended themselves. This creates undue stress. If someone can afford and justify paying cash for an expensive car and they simply want it for themselves, that's one thing. But to be strung out on payments and arguing over money makes happiness fleeting.

The metric is not simply whether or not the car is paid for. It could be wise to finance a purchase even if one can afford to pay cash if the financing is low cost due to good credit and the cash will generate a better ROI if invested wisely.

Financing an expensive car that one cannot afford to pay cash for is unwise if a lower priced vehicle could serve as well. Happiness is difficult to achieve and maintain with the stress of high debt and technical bankruptcy just a paycheck away.

It is difficult to explain the feeling of well being which ensues after wise budgeting pays off the house and frees up the budget to be able to buy anything one wishes within reason. Getting a nice car at that point is well justified if that's what makes one happy.

There are people who are able to buy a nice car for cash but don't do so until they buy and pay off a house. Even before doing so, just the knowledge of having a long range financial plan is a feeling of contentment. Fewer things to worry about makes happiness easier to come by.

Consider a job site. A building is being constructed. There are lots of pick up trucks parked outside. Several of them are high dollar. Very impressive. Are they really needed? Can they be justified? Are all the people working there in such a good financial position to be spending 50K - 75K for a vehicle? Or are some of those trucks simply purchased because the worker doesn't want to show up at the job site in an old beater minivan which could possibly serve the same purpose just as well. It would be hard to feel content with life if working just to try to keep up with $800 a month car payments and never really getting ahead of it.

The person with his/her budget together can easily take a little ribbing over showing up in a diminutive vehicle with the knowledge that it is part of a sound long range financial plan. It's easy to forgo the pride of arriving in an impressive vehicle when content that wisdom weights impressing others very low and taking care of self very high. Occasional comments around the work site or at parties are not worth as much as really having one's life smartly together.

I had a lot of dental implants, that each needed crowns which is quite expensive... I kept an older Benz in good conditions, as it was to my advantage to get the dental work done than to rush out and buy a newer Benz... Once the dental work was done, I upgraded to a newer model, but I still keep the older one because overall its in good conditions.

I don't run out and by New Cell Phones for every model that comes out, I change when the software does not accommodate the latest in security updates and the manufactures decides they won't continue with security updates for the older models.
I have Plasma TV's and did buy one quality LED, but I find that the Plasma's pictures are still great.
I wanted a Truck, but since I don't do a lot of things that require a truck, I bought an older truck, which serves the purpose I need a truck for, but its not something I drive on a daily basis.

 

[RealityNow]

Well "race-blaming" is legitimate if there is historical reason, and I would put slavery in that category. Whites kept many thousands of fellow human beings as slaves and you will never wash that away by stopping it from being included in your history lessons.
And then there's the white envy that came with freeing the slaves, and many still cannot get over it. It's also historically correct to say that blacks have been marginalized in society by whites since their freedom in the 1860s. Can't have them get too much success, or, god forbid, more success than a white person, huh?

That's all very true. and add racial segregation into that category.

I am not deterred in discussing anything related to race, by people using the word 'race baiting" or "race card"... I see those phrases as nothing but "deflection attempts" and "denial attempts" to avoid dealing with the truths within and about reality, truths, that so many try to deny exist and has existed for centuries and decades.

 

[RealityNow]

I lived down South for many years and I find this to be absolutely true. The best example is the riot by whites that burned down the black area of Tulsa. It was done because of envy of those who lived and prospered there. If you do not believe that it continues even until today, you are being very naive. Look at the people who marched through Charlottesville chanting that "Jews will not replace us". Of listen to white supremacy groups complaining that the people of color are destroying the "American" culture, better known as white western Christian culture.

Still in this day and time, Go to a site like Yahoo, and look at the comment section to any articles that has a comment sections. And you will see it littered with bias, bigotry, racist comments and inhumanity comments, any way some can find to demonstrate it.

 

[Captain America]

We

We don't know the political lean of these people,

*68,790,000*
MORE white people than Hispanic & Blacks Combined live on 80 of their income from Public Services of various sorts

Well, didn't it say that white people make up 70% of the population? I mean 70% vs 13%, or 70% vs 15%, the math alone speaks for itself as to why the 70% would gain more that 13% or 15%.

For clarity, let's level the playing field and simply look at the numbers.

My question is, out of 100,000 white people, how many are living off government cheese? (Social security/medicare does not count as that was bought and paid for.)
My next question is, out of 100,000 black people, how many are living off government cheese? (Social security/medicare does not count as that was bought and paid for.)
My final question is, out of 100,000 hispanic people, how many are living off government cheese? (Social security/medicare does not count as that was bought and paid for.)

If the %'s aren't the same across the board, per 100k people, some people are taking more than they are giving.

 

[RealityNow]

These ethnicities conformed to, and assimilated with, the Western capitalistic system of the US. Anti-discrimination laws weren't passed,

You really need to read more of the truths of history to understand, people were held under grave duress... where as you call it conformed to and assimilated... which is simply not true, because it if had been, then they would not have been denied accessibility, and opportunity in the same equal as white people enjoyed.

yet they succeded.

What you call "they succeeded", was the determination to try and make it through being faced with every unnatural man created obstacle that could be put before them.
Maybe you could gain from watching a Movie called. "The Banker"

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Bigotry will always be present in human societies, and far too much weight is being put on bigotry as the cause of racial disparity.

You seem to ignore the reality within society and the history that influences that reality. Did you not take notice that after the George Floyd Murder, and the global response, then "Banks and Other Industry's publicly acknowledged their historical deficiency of not including Diversity within the Executive Administration.

You might want to research why many black businesses don't get the same type of business loans that are available to many white businesses, for many there is no money provided for marketing and research, not money for developing image design, which could lead to franchise opportunity, with standard design and function. No money for curb appeal. These are things it's likely many white people have not acknowledged, yet, there are some who are critical of black business and many white people avoid patronizing black owned businesses.

I realize that assimilation/individualism is pretty much out of style as of 30-40 years ago,

I would ask that you also research why its difficult for black people to get venture capitalist funding support for their technology developments and interest.

South Africa makes an excellent case study.

South Africa had racial segregation, they did not have the type of slavery that existed in America. When Aparthied was no longer, the neglected areas where blacks lived, were not granted the money to build the roads, the public utility infrastructure, and the business loans that were so readily provided and available to the white people who orchestrated Aparthied.