That doesn't matter. It is good to help women regardless of race attain equality. This can be attained without the governmental extortion program known as Affirmative Action.
Please demonstrate where this has happened before government intervention. I can give you a long history of demonstration that what you've said here is not supported by history, or fact. I do not question your belief in equal rights, I question your methodology.
I continue to use the undeniable .. more than 360 years of waiting for what you believe happens naturally to manifest itself to no avail, and only 42 years of removing the yoke of oppression .. and government was the hand that lifted that yoke. Unfortunately I do not have the luxury of philosophical comparisons or unproven ideas in living with the deep rooted reality of a racist America as you may have my brother.
I respect you opinion, but it ignores the mirror. It rejects history, pattern, and even current events.
Again the assistance to those disadvantaged children, most, but not all, of whom are born to black familes can be accomplished without referring to race. The black community has some major problems that it needs to be addressed. It is unfortunate that so many children are born to single parent families and this is an issue that affects the black community in an extreme way. This leads to making an already difficult situation of an underprivileged child even worse. But, again, accomplishing assistance to these children can be done regardless of race.
There are indeed major problems in black communities but they didn't occur in a bubble. There will always be major problems in minority communities under attack. I suggest that you study the war on drugs, the disparity in prison sentencing, and the astronomical numbers of blacks who are incarcerated for crimes that whites do in far greater numbers. You can start from there and ask yourself if locking away large numbers of any demographic would cause major problems? .. And don't skip right past that question because it should offer great insight into the question that you asked about major problems in the black community.
On the issue of children, I remain forever at awe by the apathetic dismissal of need in what once was the most powerful nation on earth. It amazes me. How much is too much? We're talking about children .. any children .. anybodys chidren. They're children, and how much treasure does a great nation before it puts the interests of children above all ideological thought .. especially one that claims to be religious.
Oh how God loves us .. we are his special people .. so special that we get to run arond the planet and murder, blow apart, and even MELT innocent children of innocent parents.
Poverty in America? .. What's that?
Yeah, I know, and it is
ALL my fault!
You know better my friend and I know this is meant in sarcasm.
I would never suggest such a thing. Racism still exists today and I don't think it is getting a whole heck of a lot better either. However, I don't believe that the way to improve racial relations is to extort it out of whites. I hate to say it, but whites need to be taught a lesson and we won't learn that lesson if we are continually beaten over the head with the sins of our fathers. That method only breeds the idiotic skinheads.
With all due respect my brother, if whites haven't learned from 400 years of history, it's only because they don't want to learn. The good news is that a great many Americans have learned. It's much easier to turn one's head at the obvious, particularly when it does not directly affect you. Americans have been conditioned to turn their heads. When I was growing up and learning African-American history and the horrors of slavery, I used to ask myself where were the good people. What in the fuck were the good people doing while this horror existed for hundreds of years? As I grew older I found out what they were doing .. turning their heads .. no different than today.
Many accomplishments? Do you mean working to instill further racial tensions? Because that is about all it has truly accomplished. None of those accomplishments you speak about could not have been accomplished with a program that was targeted at disadvantaged people regardless of race.
That makes no sense. You acknowledge that racism still exists today, can you imagine what it was like then? And again, you're speaking in hypotheticals that did not exist, not in tearms of the reality. You're speaking in "could", I'm speaking of what was and had always existed.
Your argument is centered much on concern for upsetting white people who don't want change, or it "further instilling racism." Frankly, I'm not really concerned about upsetting people who lack humanity, or am I concerned about it futher instilling racism. Trust me, if AA tipped someone over the line into being a racist, that person was already a racist. There are plenty of enlightened Americans of all races that support mechanism of equality .. the kind of people who can look in the mirror. Spending a lot of time concerned about those who turn their heads is counterproductive to the forces of change.
It may not come out this way, but I truly would like to see a "colorblind society". I despise bigots and bigotry.
I do not question your sincerity. I despise bigot and bigotry as well, but I do not want to see a "colorblind society." I never want to pretend to ignore what I see. What I want is a multi-cultural society that appreciates the differences and wonder of people and culture. America does not understand multi-culturalism.
We "tolerate" other cultures. That is anti-intellectual.
We can argue racism and multi-culturalism from a lot of different perspectives, but the fact that it's anti-intellectual is most glaring.
