I am not sure I understand you 100% (its late and I am tired).
Same here. I may not be makin sense.
Racism is still a problem in America, it was worse in the 60’s and 70’s but it is still a problem that needs to be addressed. My point is that I don’t feel that dwelling on the past, silencing people who voice different opinions by calling them bigots, or reverse racism in the form of affirmative action are solutions.
True point about racism. I still don't understand why u think this issue is about dwelling on the past. This isn't about holding grudges but about sause and effect. the fact is that black ppl were disenfranchised as a rule in this society for hundreds of yrs. The condition that you see a good proportion of them in today has a great deal to do with that social policy.
White Men Can't JumpBy Andrew Wyllie
Is affirmative action the functional equivalent of discrimination against white males?
In 1994, the Los Angeles Fire Department prohibited 5,000 applicants from taking the firefighter entrance exam because they were white. Not black. Not even brown, yellow, or red. White.
When things like this happen, it’s not hard to see why affirmative action is often described as discrimination against white males. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who was passed over for promotion by the stereotypical “less qualified black applicant” because the company was seeking to fill a quota. Many young white men say that growing up as a white boy in America today is the worst turn of luck anybody could get.
But are people overreacting? Personnel numbers suggest they may be. 95% of all senior managers, vice presidents and above, are white men, even though they only make up 43% of the entire workforce. In contrast, black men only make up 4% of middle management positions. And women only make 70% of the money that white men do. When it comes down to it, white males still control virtually everything in America. What are they complaining about?
Is it possible that the affirmative action system gives unqualified minorities an unfair advantage over people that are fully qualified? Or are white men getting what they deserve after years as the beneficiaries of a racist system? Are they overreacting to a few isolated events?
The land was free but getting there was not. People had to often sell everything they had to make the trip and many of them did die.
About the time of this trek westward to settle the land that was given away free to white European-Americans, how many African-Americans at that time would have had possessions to sell to make that same trek? How many of them made that trek? If it ain't a number comparable to the millions of Europeans that did, why is that so?
In America there is still cheap land in the Midwest if you want to try farming look at the land prices in Utah, Montana, North Dokato and places around there.
I think there's a reason why the land up there is so cheap. Sorry but farming ain't my forte'.
No one in my family moved out west until 1965 no free land by then we had to buy it just like everyone else.
Guess they missed out. Choices, choices. At least they had em to make.
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Murder is a tough thing to digest. It's a slow process and the WTBTS's got nuthin but time.
