I know it’s hard for simpletons to contemplate there might be other reasons black people disproportionately struggle in the US other than systemic racism and white privilege. Somehow, Asians, (non-white) succeed at the highest level despite being criminally discriminated against in favor of other POC!
But digging any deeper than that requires something more than a simple rubber stamp subscription to surface level sociology pushed by ideologically captured academics.
What about Black people from Ethiopia? Do they have the same struggles as African Americans?
What if during the Colonial and early American eras people from various Asian subcultures had been brought here in chains. Their ancient traditional religions and traditions suppressed. Kept from education. Families and clans broken up. All intermingled.
Held collectively in chattel slavery for several hundred years. Then faced Jim Crow laws another hundred. Dealt with lynching parties, widespread harassment by law enforcement, racial taunts ...
Do you think their descendants might be dealing with the same challenges?