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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: 23 Oct 2024 01:49:42 GMT
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:54:24 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On 23 Oct 2024 00:38:20 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> Quite a bit of investment has been made in that dusky underclass for
>> seventy years with little to show for it ...
> 
> Look at your existing affluent elite, and note how many of them
> originated from that very underclass. Seventy years is way too long to
> go without such replacement becoming inevitable.

Diddy may have been affluent but he hardly was elite. 

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-
about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/

One could, and you probably do, assume some huge conspiracy of privileged 
whites to keep people of color down, or one could ask if there is more to 
the story.