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Originally Posted by chillrob
Help them conform to what?
Help them conform to the demands of the supposed meritocracy: good grades, clean record, professional degree, the right internships, talking like a white person, etc. Only, my point is, that meritocracy doesn't exist for black people to the degree it does for whites and it's not even close. This is obvious to black people and informs their incentive. Breaking into gainful networks is difficult when attributes, even harmless attributes, conferred simply by the neighborhood one was born in, serve to mark a black person as in the "out group".