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When you don't have a culture of innovation and one that doesn't value and stress education and innovation, the sad truth is election based forms of government tend to not work so well because there are too many dopey people voting and you get what you vote for.  That's why democrats like to bus in highly uneducated people from highly dysfunctional communities to vote.

A very similar phenomena causes minorities to lag behind in america.  What percentage of blacks and Latinos have stem degrees?  What percentage work as innovators?  What percentage start businesses?  What percentage become drs and lawyers and many other white collar professionals?  What percentage even go to college or graduate high school.  Even when they do these things what are their class rankings, which affect what opportunities one has right out of college.  Even with affirmative action such things are not remedied.   I could go on and on.  Compare these percentages to white people and Asians.  Across the board they are  much lower for blacks and Hispanics.

You just need ^^^ this and you don't need racism to explain all of the inequality in this country. Those things I mention above alone with cause serious inequality 100 percent of the time regardless of the degree of racism in a society. 

It's not just a rule that applies to America.  Take any country on the planet and have one group of people who graduate high school, go to college, go to graduate school, pursue advanced degrees and become white collar professionals, work in innovative fields as innovators at a much higher statistical rate than another group of people in that same country and I can guarantee you the group who pursues these endeavors at a much higher frequency will be more wealthy in the aggregate.  Nothing short of the other group that lags behind achieving statistical parity will solve this.  No amount of welfare or income redistribution will solve this because even under communism where everyone makes the same amount regardless of such statistical disparities, someone with a PhD in rocket science is going to more often than not make better choices with their money than someone who dropped out of High school.  While communism would make folks more equally miserable and poor, it still wouldn't solve all inequality and income redistribution to any significant degree causes a whole bunch of cobra effects that make everyone less wealthy in the aggregate.