So because of improprieties that mostly effected previous generations, it is appropriate and moral, to discriminately give scholarships to students, based on their color, even though they are not subject to these improprieties?
400 years of slavery, segregation, violence, and discrimination was not an "improprity." You deliberately chose a word that downplays the effects of our history of treatment of blacks in America, when legal discrimination was only outlawed in this country during my lifetime. That's a cheap tactic, and you're a dick for using it.
Do you believe that this country should do nothing to make up for the damage that our history of slavery and segregation has done to dozens of generations of blacks; and that even private citizens and groups should not be able to do anything to change the effects of that history? Nevermind that blacks had double the rate of poverty in 1968 when the last major Civil Rights Bill was passed, and thirty years later those rates are the same.
Those statistics only reflect the economic effects of our history of racism. There's no way to summarize the cumulative effects on families and individuals after generations of being discriminated against, and separated, and denied the same rights as white people. But to go for 400 years and suddenly say "ok, we're all equal now" would be a further injustice. But that's pretty much what we've done. Affirmative action was the only thing the United States government has attempted to do to ameliorate the damage done, and that has been under attack from the beginning. Nobody wants to pay any cost at all, and people will even work to prevent others from doing it. That, to me, is a disgrace.
What's more, the relative poverty and disfunction of blacks in America is held up as examples of their inferiority, and for further discrimination. Black slang, which evolved from the Pigeon English, the language of the slave trade, is now equated with ignorance and stupidity. Then you have those people who blame blacks collectively for every wrong idea that a black person or group does. These things continue to disadvantage blacks who haven't learned to adopt the mainstream culture of white America. They're the kind of obstacles that that poor white family doesn't have to contend with.
And explain to me why the white family, living in a small manufacturing town in lets say, western Pennsylvania, who make about $10,000 a year and don't have to nickels to rub together, don't deserve to have a level playing field, being at the same economic disadvantage. But I guess because his ancestors weren't slaves, his life is worth less and he isn't as entitled to go to college.
Again with the distortions. Economic disadvantages should be and are addressed as much or more than racial disadvantages. It doesn't make it a crime against poor whites to do so. I'm poor, and I'm not crying about black scholarships.
For what its worth, my parents didn't give me money for college. I got financial aid and went to a shitty community college. I used my associates degree to get a clerical job that had tuition reimbursement. With that and student loans, I went to college at night and got my bachelors in accounting and passed my CPA exam. A path anyone can follow.So don't give me any shit about level playing fields!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm poor white trash and put myself through college too, but I'm not going to pretend that everyone had the same circumstances that I had. If my family had been black everything in our history would have been different, and probably wouldn't have even survived the poverty we lived in over the generations I know about. That's the difference though; that I would be worse off if I had been black. Everything would have been worse. That's why past injustice is still relevant. If you can't imagine that, that's your problem.
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