There is no difference in the treatment of eastern Germans by law. The corresponding measures to what was done here would be to give economic weak states subsidies. There were lots of former east Germans going to the West and there were as well west Germans going to the east. I have no clue why this should be seen as any specific treatment for east German people. Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
And a side effect of affirmative action is that some blacks benefit who aven't been discriminateed against and come from well-off families, and some people of mixed descent who don't qualify as "blacks" but have suffered racial discrimination as such don't.
Why aren't there ghetto uplift programms
Because socialism didn't get as far as the fight against racism. Note though that the New Deal and the post-WWII programmes in the US also worked to lift a lot of people out of the non-black, immigrant ghettos in East Coast major cities.
it wouldn't be, 'you are treated different because your skin is dark'
Now, are you claiming that there is no trend of US blacks being treated different because of the colour of their skin, only because of their ghetto origins? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
