KaiserJeep wrote:Tell me if you will, how two runners in a race can ever be equal as long as one has a 300 year head start.
Racers don't come out equal even when they both start from the same starting line. The whole purpose of the race is to see which racer is the fastest and sure enough, someone always wins. And the winner isn't determined by skin color----its determined by which person can run the fastest.
KaiserJeep wrote:You benefit from having a White skin, they suffer because they do not.
There are individual people with black skin who do very very well, just as there are individuals with white skin who do very very poorly. Attributing success in life to skin color, and seeing all people with black skin as victims and all people with white skin as oppressors is at best a waste of time, IMHO, and at worst very damaging to black people who may come to believe your point that they have no chance of success, and give up on trying to work hard.
KaiserJeep wrote:Discrimination for Blacks is real, still present
My experience is quite the opposite. IMHO affirmative action programs are government mandated discrimination IN FAVOR OF blacks, which in some cases allow people with black skin to attain preferential admission to elite colleges, or be hired into certain jobs due to racial preferances, or to receive various federal programs and grants that more qualified people with yellow skin or white skin are denied. In fact the DOJ just filed a lawsuit last week alleging racial discrimination in favor of blacks at Harvard---just the latest in a long string of such lawsuits.
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KaiserJeep wrote:... here in California's SF Bay Area, the Blacks almost all live in Oakland, and it's not a good place to live. Nor is Watts, for that matter. Not to mention, Harlem or South Chicago or East Boston or Washington DC or East St. Louis, or much of Philidelphia.
I don't think Black people live in those places because that is their preference. I think that White people force them to live there with discrimination.
Yes, I've seen those places. I'm always shocked at the amount of segregation in housing and schools, and the poor quality of the education and housing in the liberal blue states, particularly in the big liberal cities like San Francisco, Chicago Boston, Washington DC, etc. However, I don't think white people are forcing black people to live in segregated areas today. The old segregationists Ds are all out of office, and the Jim Crow laws etc. are gone. Today we are looking at economics driving housing, with wealthier people, regardless of skin color, moving away from crime-ridden and decaying inner cities areas, and leaving poorer people of all skin colors behind.
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