Dr. Lauren Tucker
2 min readFeb 24, 2025

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I use a LOT of data to support my arguments. I can provide more if you'd like. I have a few articles from your comments you haven't read that support my arguments with data from well-regarded sources. I have included data about how, despite DEI helping more white people than Black Americans, including the huge multinational companies run primarily by white people who profited the most on more recent DEI efforts. As for the culture, Black Americans have always done more with less despite the racism that persists in the U.S. If you don't think that racism exists, I'd be happy to send you quite a few of the private responses I've received. Not long ago, I and my family were excluded from housing in neighborhoods with better schools and restaurants. My father, who was quite successful, still had to decide on a less lucrative career because he was told in no uncertain terms that finance was a "white job." Barries like this result in the average net worth of a Black American being 10 times less than that of white Americans. I know many white Americans think Black Americans are everywhere, but we're still just 13% of the nation's population, which hasn't changed since the Civil War. There's not enough to put 1 million of us in every state. So, has our excellence had an outsized influence on U.S. culture? Yes, has it made up for 400 years of slavery, Jim Crow, and de jure segregation? No. But check in with me in another 400 years when I can afford to buy your arguments.

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Dr. Lauren Tucker
Dr. Lauren Tucker

Written by Dr. Lauren Tucker

A subversive writer looking to save humans from themselves, an exile, not an expat, and a founder of Do What Matters and Indivisible Chicago.

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