Yes yet another fucking thread about racism and shit. This is going to be heavily opinionated, but as someone that is mixed race it is annoying whenever people try and constantly try to redefine racism and don't understand the difference.
Without getting into it I'll give two examples of what I mean:
Being disadvantaged is like how my grandma was a massive drug addict that took all the family's millions of dollars, yes my mom's side of the family were millionaire jews yes you can start cracking jokes I don't mind, because she blew through all the family's money in a matter of years on hard drugs that screwed up her kid's financially because as soon as they hit 15 they had to start working. Having to work fulltime as a teen and not being able to finish highschool or risk starving leaves you at a financial disadvantage later on in life; I've seen this firsthand.
Racism is like how back in the day I was always told my dad is a "race traitor" for having kids with a white woman. When I was a kid I got called "mutt" a lot. Honestly I think that whole debate is fucking stupid, because nobody is 100% one race; a while back a lot of kkk members started getting gene tests to try and prove they were 100% only white and they wound up getting kicked out cause most people are at most like 70% black or such; there's no such thing biologically as race, it's a social construct, if there is such a thing biologically as race point to me another example of a animal where there's races.
"Well if that's true then why do so many minorities have lower standards of living?"
Easy; the three biggest most common causes of permanent lifelong poverty in the USA are: having kids too early to where you're not financially secure enough to care for them, not finishing high school or getting a GED, buying a house when you're not financially secure enough. If you're one of those people that want to metaphorically, hopefully not literally, die for a cause the best way to fight against this would be to help someone you know get their GED, promote them to wait to have kids till they're financially secure enough or if they had kids help babysit once in a while and finally if they're talking about buying a house with someone they've only been together with for six months smack some sense into them. My sister is a prime example of what I mean; she didn't finish highschool or get a GED, she had kids when she and her boyfriend didn't have a job and she bought a house. After she got her GED, got a job and sold her house she was peachy financially.
Tldr; most common causes of poverty in USA:
No high school diploma or GED.
Having kids when they don't have a job.
Buying a house when they can't afford it.
"If that is true then why are so many talking about (insert clickbait article here) instead?"
Cause 85% of teens graduate high school now or get their GED and it's continuing to rise, less teens are having babies, and first time home buyers after the 2007 recession are for the most part not buying million dollar houses anymore they're buying more reasonable $30k to $50k houses instead. The underlying problems are fixed, but it's going to take a couple decades for the USA to start feeling the effects.