"Who Do You Imagine: Poor Americans"

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  • @lanaroberts2937
    @lanaroberts2937 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Commenting to boost the reach of this channel. More people need to hear these conversations.

    • @SOC119
      @SOC119  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @sniper1356
    @sniper1356 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I just started working at penn state and wish I could sit in on one of these classes.

  • @AndreFromThe617
    @AndreFromThe617 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    If the police saw these 2 nice black kids vs 2 of those poor white people, its not a question, theyd be much more suspicious of the poor people. Its a class thing. Its ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT CLASS

    • @hopeintruth5119
      @hopeintruth5119 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Not that easy. It would be both. Racism and class has been intertwined in America. Class reductionism removes nuances.

    • @AcidicSprayer
      @AcidicSprayer ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Trump 2024

    • @medarby3066
      @medarby3066 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@hopeintruth5119 class reduction is a new favorite buzzword of race hustlers everywhere.

    • @quinnrivera5075
      @quinnrivera5075 ปีที่แล้ว

      You ever been to jail in a county where it’s all white people? Like only one or two black dudes in the whole jail? Cops arrest whoever is around. It ain’t like the white counties have empty jail cells.

    • @FukaiKokoro
      @FukaiKokoro ปีที่แล้ว

      @user-jw7pu1rw4i maybe change your username if you're so proud of trump.
      Also trump is a part of the problem. Major parties are the problem. Vote third party. If we all choose to not vote for mainstream parties we may actually stand a chance of changing things

  • @kclauren6052
    @kclauren6052 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    This channel is so great! Making people really think about their beliefs and identities instead of just spouting off the most recent buzz words. And he dismisses no one, only asks them to elaborate and convince him. What a great class/teacher!

  • @ytToxicDreams
    @ytToxicDreams ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Just came across this channel and have watched probably 20 videos. No idea how it's not bigger. If you're reading this, leave a comment to boost the algorithm.

    • @Brandonthesnifferofall
      @Brandonthesnifferofall ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here.. I bet it grows quickly, this is solid stuff 👍

    • @goblinbonez0
      @goblinbonez0 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      obligatory comment for algorithm

    • @Kyle-ev4fk
      @Kyle-ev4fk ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sadly this channel is old and has not grown big enough yet.

    • @benwetherbee
      @benwetherbee ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TH-cam has a selective algorithm, and this video doesn't fit their socio-cultural parameters.

    • @KarenMorrow-z3e
      @KarenMorrow-z3e ปีที่แล้ว

      I love this teacher

  • @dethadepari4667
    @dethadepari4667 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    These college kuds live in mainstream media bubble. Thanks to this professor whom shed the light. Maybe those two wont get it, but i am hoping other in the audience will manage to get away from that bubble

  • @Retrofun69
    @Retrofun69 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Commenting here to boost the visibility of this channel. This message should be obligatory for every person in the USA.

  • @airicaxoxo
    @airicaxoxo ปีที่แล้ว +13

    3:14 Statistically, there are more whites than black. Whites 2020: 231.9 million vs Blacks 2020 41.6 million. I did the calculations and that means whites: around 7% whites in poverty versus 20% blacks.

    • @rachelschrock7036
      @rachelschrock7036 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It’s about 8.6% whites and 17.1% blacks (according to Federal Safety Net). However, when discussing the impact at the voting polls, it makes sense to see the actual numbers opposed to percentages. The number of individuals voting matter more than demographic percentages. About 1 in 5 black people will be poor, and about 1 in 10 white people will be poor, but about 2 out of 3 people in the USA are white. There are just so many more poor white people than poor black people.

    • @okeafia5630
      @okeafia5630 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yt people love using percentage until the actual numbers prove their agenda.

    • @samuelboucher1454
      @samuelboucher1454 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Do you think there is a correct percentage that should be poor? Why does proportionality matter versus absolute numbers?

  • @fiore7939
    @fiore7939 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Bless this man!

  • @optimisticzebra8498
    @optimisticzebra8498 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I definitely don't think of one race. When I hear poor people I actually think of the type of shelter a poor family lives in or a specific, run down section of a neighborhood.

  • @lavern007
    @lavern007 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I used to troll people in the 1960s (I am that old and I was eight then) when I would go on a tirade about people on welfare. Invariably, someone and many adults would say I’m attacking minorities. I would smile and ask “why do you think all black people are poor?” I would them that there were more white people on food stamps and welfare than black people.

    • @matthewhansen93
      @matthewhansen93 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There’s more white people than black people so of course that’s true. Context is important

    • @lavern007
      @lavern007 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@matthewhansen93 of course it’s true now and then. On the show “All In The Family” about 1970, the feminist cousin to Archie had a riddle; a crash victim is wheeled into surgery. The doctor looks at the victim and says “I can’t operate on this person. He is my son”. Outside, the father waited to hear the news. Why couldn’t the doctor operate? It is not a trick question but in 1970 most people couldn’t answer it correctly. I got it immediately. The doctor was the victims MOTHER. I must be pretty enlightened.

    • @neglectfulsausage7689
      @neglectfulsausage7689 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not for long, YT. We outbreeding you on your money LOL @@matthewhansen93

  • @jenniferjustice1369
    @jenniferjustice1369 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The one group always left out would be persons with special needs especially those with IDD (intellectual disabled diagnosis)……this is a common group that is highly ignored and overlooked.

  • @KillahManjaro
    @KillahManjaro ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Racism to me is all about power and access to resources, Someone calling me names or feeling a certain way about me is more about prejudice.
    I don't give a crap what people think about me as long as I get equal access to the resources of the society like eveyone else.
    Examples of resources: Jobs, Education, Voting, Bank Loans, Fair House etc. That's what Black folks were marching for, not for White folks to like me or stop calling me names.

    • @albertbecerra
      @albertbecerra ปีที่แล้ว

      You're thinking of systemic racism

    • @markzl1608
      @markzl1608 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As a Latino I have never experienced any discrimination. The worse thing I could think of is a Hispanic woman asked me how difficult it was to get a green card from Puerto Rico. lol!!!!!
      Uh… PR is part of the USA. lol

    • @leonkennedy9862
      @leonkennedy9862 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@albertbecerra it's not about racism ❌
      i think it's about
      handsome privilege
      dad money privilege
      luck privilege
      p size privilege
      height privilege
      high IQ brain 🧠 privilege
      merit earn privilege
      masculine .
      tallent.
      discipline.
      good conversation skill.
      Charismatic .
      good body language..
      good facial expression.
      style.

    • @albertbecerra
      @albertbecerra 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@leonkennedy9862 yeah I know. But the op comment is describing systemic racism.

  • @lyndagauthier1670
    @lyndagauthier1670 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful videos, thank you

  • @troy5140
    @troy5140 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Her example of systematic racism is being judged by the police differently. She shouid ride with cops and see their experiences. Maybe look up violent crime stats. Stats are taboo to ao many people like her

  • @ronin2963
    @ronin2963 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mr Professor, i don't picture you when i think of the average US citizen

  • @mariac4602
    @mariac4602 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Here’s an example to consider. My income has declined over the past several years and finding a good job is challenging because I am older now and employers know the cost of my monthly health insurance will be thousands of dollars more per month. But here the thing- while income is going down, my taxes, food, heating, house repair costs have increased at an inflationary rate. And getting something simple like over the counter pain and cold medication is getting increasingly expensive. What’s the point? That creating discord so we turn on each other is the elitist game to keep the focus off their insane greed and outrageous wealth and power. We need to turn the focus clearly on big business and corrupt politicians sell the American people to the highest bidder.

  • @1johnperry
    @1johnperry 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's not about "Class" or "Racism". I was raised in a white upper middle class family... Since leaving our parents home, my oldest brother has lived in poverty, going from paycheck to paycheck and digging in dumpsters behind the grocery stores to feed himself and his family... He's intelligent he attended a great university for a couple of years. It is sad to see, but he makes decisions that will keep him in poverty forever... He is checked out by the police and arrested occasionally... Responsibility doesn't mean anything to him unless it is being directed to someone else...

  • @theyellowmeaning
    @theyellowmeaning ปีที่แล้ว +1

    poverty is the biggest issue facing poor people. and the government only expands the scale of poverty when it grows in economic sectors.

  • @coyjin
    @coyjin ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'd like to see an overly of a heat map showing poverty and ethnicity. some of the most impoverished parts of the US are in the south and there is also more black and Hispanic people in the south. I wonder if poverty is more based on location.

    • @glasshalffull2930
      @glasshalffull2930 ปีที่แล้ว

      I actually did a little internet research on this and poor whites ‘tend’ to live in the South and in the Appalachian mountain region. Predominantly rural areas or small towns and spread out. Poor black people ‘tend’ to live in urban areas and concentrated. The fact that poor blacks live in a concentrated area means that the poverty infiltrates more aspects of their lives. (Higher crime rates, gangs, drugs, failing schools, no jobs, etc, etc) Both poor groups are in a terrible situation, but the problems of poor blacks are front and center as it impacts whole cities and is on the news daily.

  • @okeafia5630
    @okeafia5630 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Does anybody else think of the dad on get out?

  • @Razear
    @Razear ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "It's cool to see a stat like that." By "cool," please tell me you mean fascinating and not desirable because that would be really effed up.
    A big reason that Trump won 2016 was because he got the rural, working-class vote which happens to be primarily white while Crooked Hillary was playing identity politics by sowing racial division.

  • @Solo-Road
    @Solo-Road 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's pretty remarkable how wrong so many people are.

  • @KarinaLlanos
    @KarinaLlanos ปีที่แล้ว +1

    But curiously I'd think the reverse question, which are the numbers of rich people...?
    Are those numbers a reflection of percentages of the population accordingly to race?

  • @jeffdo9195
    @jeffdo9195 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Should teach these kids to NOT be so hyper sensitive

  • @ronin2963
    @ronin2963 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Does anybody remember the Tennessee Valley Project.

  • @OMG-seriously
    @OMG-seriously ปีที่แล้ว

    Growing up there were and there still are those poverty ads that obly focus on African countries then the tv programs present Europeans as wealthy while other not showing or hardly showing "black" wealth I think thats why things like "shopping while black" happens, the assumption poor people will steal

  • @markzl1608
    @markzl1608 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where I’m from the majority of poor are white and Hispanic.

  • @robertisaacson6072
    @robertisaacson6072 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just shows profiling goes both ways, just called something different by the individual.

  • @ddlorenzo57
    @ddlorenzo57 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Salient discussion, I am not sure this instructor is long for his position.

    • @lavern007
      @lavern007 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He has been doing this for a few years.

    • @caffeinezombies
      @caffeinezombies ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why would you think that? As in, what's informing this concern?

    • @bx0xd
      @bx0xd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He has 800+ students a semester and has been teaching for 30 years.

    • @Megacheez
      @Megacheez 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@caffeinezombies the early lectures of jordan peterson come to mind. see where he ended up eventually. i suspect this professor will be asked/forced to pander to some kind of minority group in some way (think thw pronoun thing with peterson) where he will not and get screwed over for it. Or he will give in as he feel sits not a hill he wants to die on but then loose the joy in teaching this class and after a few more semesters just stop doing it. h would not be teh first and certainly not the last.

    • @caffeinezombies
      @caffeinezombies 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Megacheez Jordan Peterson didn't really start saying anything of note until late in his career. Then pushed back and eventually decided the private world would make him more money with less headache. This professor has been doing this very thing for decades, I am positive he gets complaints every year, if not more frequently, but the university sides with him, he keeps moving along and keeps providing. But he's doing something Peterson never did, opens a dialog to learn.
      That'd be my concern with the comparison. Listen to how this professor speaks- layman terms, down to earth, walking people through sociological understanding. Listen to JP for a moment and you realize he uses a lot of big vague words more often than educating, and sometimes more rarely he just calls someone wrong, then goes off into those same verbal gymnastics. That isn't to say he doesn't deserve a platform but it's a far cry from this class's platform in terms of how educational it is. Which is also probably why it's less popular.

  • @petercullipher9438
    @petercullipher9438 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a clear demonstration of victim mentality.

    • @JGray1066
      @JGray1066 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      From the lecturer as well!

  • @cmmp1988
    @cmmp1988 ปีที่แล้ว

    While I agree that yes there may be more white people that are living in poverty I also think it's important to take into consideration how big or small the populations are. I think, for example, that the population of the US that is black is like 20% (ish). So to see their number living in poverty is probably a very large portion of the population. I hope I'm making sense. Like if white people have 70% of the population and have 15 mil and black people have 20% of the population, which is less than a third of the population of white people, but still have 8 mil in poverty, it's a much bigger portion of their people. Just something to think about. Please keep in mind that I am aware that my examples of the populations are not completely correct. I just didn't look it up for the exact percentages.

    • @leonkennedy9862
      @leonkennedy9862 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it's not about racism ❌
      i think it's about
      handsome privilege
      dad money privilege
      luck privilege
      p size privilege
      height privilege
      high IQ brain 🧠 privilege
      merit earn privilege list
      masculine .
      tallent.
      discipline.
      good conversation skill.
      Charismatic .
      good body language..
      good facial expression.
      style.
      it's not about white and black.

    • @iptzekin
      @iptzekin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      US Census date from 2020 (less than 50% poverty level)
      Race White 4.9%
      Black 10.7%
      American Indian 10.5%
      Asian 5.1%
      Hispanic 7.6%
      The professor should know the difference between absolute numbers of people and percent of that population.

    • @tayalves3461
      @tayalves3461 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The numbers he showed were more clear, IMO. Because when we see percentage it looks like there isn't a lot of white poor people. But this isn't the reality.

    • @samuelboucher1454
      @samuelboucher1454 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Do you think there is a correct percentage that should be poor? Why does proportionality matter versus absolute numbers?

    • @tayalves3461
      @tayalves3461 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@samuelboucher1454 I think the same

  • @massimosuklan3046
    @massimosuklan3046 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sens like no one of the black students of PenState never expirience any kind of racism

  • @vanbatim5906
    @vanbatim5906 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Disingenuous video. Period. Adjust for population and Black Americans make up nearly 20% of those in poverty while White Americans make up slight higher than 8%.

  • @jeffdo9195
    @jeffdo9195 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He should not cater to there snow flake feelings he should set them straight

  • @cmlasley
    @cmlasley 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unless you show the ratios of white people in poverty v. not and black people in poverty v. not, and those totals you show, the numbers are misleading. This is not to argue that racism is the reason for disparity. I don't think there is data that can effectively show that. When you get into criminality, we have much better numbers. Look up the Baldus study, for example.

    • @samuelboucher1454
      @samuelboucher1454 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Do you think there is a correct percentage that should be poor? Why does proportionality matter versus absolute numbers?

  • @JosephHuddleston
    @JosephHuddleston 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Of course there will be more white people in poverty than black. The white population in the US is roughly 4x that of the black populationg. However, if you compare the stats provided in the video with 2020 census data it needs to noted that if you are black you are more than twice as likely to be poor.
    If the black poverty rate was equal to that of white then there would only be 3.7M black people in poverty.
    The stats in the video.
    White people in poverty = 15.9M
    Black people in poverty = 8.4M
    Census 2020 Stats
    White population = 204.3M
    Black population = 46.9M
    Rate per 1000
    White poverty rate = 78 people living in poverty per 1000 white people
    Back poverty rate = 179 people living in poverty per 1000 black people

  • @SirChadWilliams
    @SirChadWilliams ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Universal Basic Income
    4Day Work Week 🎈

  • @ozramblue117
    @ozramblue117 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The “professor” constantly puts words in the students mouth that misconstrue what the student originally said. Whether a good point or bad, this is a sham for university level teaching. This is manipulative and relies heavily on appeals to emotion and assertions without backing. I can’t believe higher education has devolved into this. MLK must be rolling in his grave. This is not education, it’s indoctrination of the worst kind. One may argue this clip is too short to gather context from, but it’s hard to imagine a relevant context under which this is in any way helping students to think critically and have to tools to succeed in life. There’s no accepted premise or adherence to terms. This is an insight into why society is failing. The “professor” is encouraging the use of gross cliches and base generalisations. It pushes identity politics over individual responsibility. This guy is deeply, deeply shameful in his behaviour and should not be anywhere near any classroom. How terribly sad.

    • @vanbatim5906
      @vanbatim5906 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not only that, but the 'professor' is being disingenuous with the data. Black Americans disproportionately make up those under poverty than other races. Black Americans make up nearly 20% of those in poverty and Whites make up slightly over 8%. This is adjusted, as it should be, based on population size.

    • @TijmenZwaan
      @TijmenZwaan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vanbatim5906 "Black Americans make up nearly 20% of those in poverty and Whites make up slightly over 8%".
      No, nearly 20% of black people are in poverty and nearly 8% of white people are in poverty. This distinction is very important. Yes, you're more likely to be poor when you are black in the USA. No this does no invalidate the fact that there are more poor white people than poor black people in the USA.
      This is not being disingenuous.
      Your statement is disingenuous however. According to the sentence I quoted from you, 28% of those in poverty are either black or white. So that leaves 72% of people in poverty to be neither black nor white? That's not an accurate representation of the stats at all.

    • @vanbatim5906
      @vanbatim5906 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @TijmenZwaan not disingenuous on purpose, but you are correct. The professor however knows exactly what he is doing.

  • @ysahehre4316
    @ysahehre4316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The way he says the word racism.
    Its curious to say the least.
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    Just, Y🤷🏽‍♀️?
    Js😁

  • @samuelboucher1454
    @samuelboucher1454 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Commenting here to boost the visibility of this channel. This message should be obligatory for every person in the USA