Poverty is inherited and it's impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Black people in America are poor because they used to be slaves
White cultural traditions are legal in Australia. Many aboriginal cultural traditions have been made illegal in Australia due to land ownership changes
Black people are under-represented in universities, so the university scientists building facial recognition apps aren't building them to work on black people
Schools teach their lessons in english. Multilingual students who don't speak english at home often have a disadvantage in lessons that will be felt their whole lives
Children of illegal immigrants may have never received identification such as a birth certificate and it can be hard to get this as an adult
Whenever the police use robotic and computer systems to detect criminals the AI ends up racial profiling and harassing black people

[–] guy 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Schools teach their lessons in english.

When you have to pick a language to teach in, isn't this the best language to teach in though, in a predominantly English speaking society?

I don't think segregating classes into separate language-based ones would be a good idea. That leaves kids not speaking English at home nor at school in an even bigger disadvantage in terms of learning English and we need we need kids of all different backgrounds mixing together so that they may understand and accept one another.

[–] HardlightCereal 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The solution are extra English lessons for both the kids and the parents, and financial support so that the parents can afford the time to learn English at these classes

[–] guy 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a good solution, yes.

Though good luck convincing governments, that continue to cut funding for important social programs like these, to bother supporting minorities in schools.

[–] HardlightCereal 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what this post is about. We have racially biased systems, and we can implement solutions to fix them, but it's not free because nothing's free. It's still worth doing.