>you said that was another level to this (it's not). someone
>piggybacked on what you were saying to say that another level
>is that black people have "desire to prove we have money by
>spending all of it" (that is also not another level to this).
>
>it's easy to be financially literate and responsible with
>money when the economy has, for 200 years, been set up
>specifically to funnel wealth and opportunity out of other
>people's pockets and into yours.
>
>therefore, what you were saying and what the person who
>piggybacked on your point was saying are not another level to
>this issue, unless you want to count levels above 372. what
>i'm saying is levels 1 through 371.


man look, I am on board with you more than you are realizing

and rather than have to go down the list point by point as to why or why not

i'll just say that the focus was to call out one part, one layer of it

you want to talk about the whole cake and I am talking about one layer and how I see it relating to the OP's general outlook.

again, this history lesson which you keep leaning on is of course an embedded foundation which informs the outlook