<b>How to use this knowledge to defeat racism, give everyone a better life:</b><br>Some facts:<br>-about 3.5% of Canadians are black, yet over 90% of it's track runners are black<br>-most of the NBA is black, yet black Americans are about 13% of America's population<br>-about 1% of Americans are Jewish like Lex, yet 50% of the richest 25 Americans are Jewish and about 30% of Ivy League Professors and students are Jewish<br>-most wealth in capitalism is concentrated in the few people at the top, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are Christian background, they are in the 25 richest American group and have a combined net worth equal to the bottom 50% of all Americans<br>-South Africa has advanced manufacturing and nuclear energy and a 13% white population who runs most of it<br>-Indian Americans, parents from India, earn 2X the white American family income and have incredibly high education levels, higher than whites or Jews<br>-there are smart people in all countries, but our immigration policy attracts most of the smart people from Haiti, who left for opportunity in the U.S. and Canada<br>-I am fully on board, accepting multi-culturalism <br>-the countries in Africa that are economically booming have imported a lot of Chinese technical help, since these countries don't produce a lot of it, themselves<br>-on "The World's Hardest Math Course" at Harvard, 30% of people making it through, are Jewish<br><br>How to make sense of all this, improve people's lives, defuse racism: there are pocket of talent in every ethnicity or race. Most people of all races are somewhere in the middle. It's on the extreme ends, that things happen. Most Jewish people are just normal Americans. But that ethnic group has a high proportion of academic type people...a small percentage of their population. Most black people are just normal Americans. But that ethnic group has a high proportion of athletic people...a small percentage of their population.<br><br>Fix immigration based on honest measures of what sort of people, your country needs:<br><br>Countries like Haiti suffer mostly because they are not diverse enough. The smart people leave. Immigration should be coming from highly developed countries with excess educated people, going into Haiti. Our immigration patterns are mostly backwards. China has the right idea: send smart people to less developed countries. This could be done on a temporary citizenship model. How does all this combat racism? Once people of all races attain a normal middle class life thru economic development, whatever racial differences there are, seem to fade to non importance.,(reply>), <b>Why all this matters for American politics:</b><br><br>Why does all this matter? We are becoming politically senile in America, about what our problems are, how do we fix them. How did we get so clueless and corrupt and unable to solve our own problems?...race, income inequality. Lack of honesty. It goes back to the root problem of variations in human ability....how this plays out in who runs things, it leads to patterns of self-interest and cluelessness among our elites. That's because wealth selects out certain type of people, so does political influence.<br><br>Some of this cluelessness of our elites, about the needs of voters, is driven by wealth patterns that show up in capitalism. Again, look up wiki on the top 25 richest Americans. Look for patterns. Most of them are Democrat. Jewish Americans are key to this. They vote 90% Democrat, have for a long time. They fund the Democrats and Republicans. Mostly the Democrats. The key to turning this around, is getting all that money to be used for good instead of self-interest, more good for the common man and woman is what we need....instead of just more for the interests of the already rich elite. We need to get our elites try to act good and with compassionate, which is their natural inclination anyhow, but is getting distorted by their power and money. <br><br>Again, go back to root causation: why does wealth and political influence concentrate into a few hands? Jordan Peterson had a partial answer. This is no conspiracy. It has to do with inequality of gifts and how capitalism works. The Pareto Distribution is part of the answer. That's the tendency for wealth and power to concentrate into a very small minority. Incredibly tiny. A few people. The Pareto Distribution shows up in many things, from the size of cities to the size of stars, to wealth concentration in capitalism. We need to understand how that distorts capitalism and causes us so much grief.<br><br>As per previous comment,  Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos are Christian background and are part of the elite 25. They have a combined net worth equal to all the combined wealth of the bottom 50% of Americans...all 160 Million of us. Those 3 guys are all Democrats and Christian background. Rich guys pretty much have all the money, are mostly Democrat rich guys, rich guys fund the Democrat Party, so if our politics doesn't solve the problems of the average American, guess who is to blame? You guessed it. The super-rich. 25 guys, basically.<br><br>Those rich guys fund the Democrat Party, for their own interests. No wonder Democrats cater to the super-rich. It's where they get their money. The super-rich have captured the political process. Who exactly are they? The super-rich are mostly progressive Democrats, politically. So when things go wrong, we must understand who pulls the financial strings, who to blame. It's not The Deplorables. Don't blame the powerless. It's not a lack of ideas or solutions. It's self-serving political power, based in money, which itself is based in unequal talent distributions.<br><br>The sad thing for me is that Jewish people have a very long history of being oppressed, they generally have a big heart for the underprivileged and they genuinely think they are helping, these top guys who run the Democrat Party. All their compassion is going to waste because of their refusal to be honest about what is going on. They don't want to be labelled "racist" if they point out obvious things. That's sad and cowardly. And in the end, it's not even compassionate. In a country that is becoming multi-racial, it's key for social stability, to fix this problem. Starts with honesty about ability. <br><br>Same thing in Canada. Justin Trudeau's deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is part of that elite super-rich social circle, even wrote a book about it. In the U.S., Democrats are the party of the super-rich, the Democrats get their money from the super-rich, cater to the interests of the super-rich. If we are to fix our income inequality and racial problems, we need to understand and be honest about intelligence, money, power and influence and how it shapes and captures the political process. <br><br>Donald Trump is very rich too, not quite super-rich, but he is an FDR type of rich guy. Both are from New York, born into wealth, but for quirky personal reasons, had a real connection with the lower classes. Donald Trump is basically FDR, with very bad manners. 👎 I'm a fan of his policies. His tweets, I could live without.