The implication that the majority of black people can't be oppressed because some of them are able to become sports stars or presidents is ridiculous. Especially since that was the first black president after a string of 42 white ones.
Society needs widespread changes to make it easier for black people to become successful, because without those changes, it is much more difficult for them to be those things. It's not a coincidence that there are far fewer black doctors than white ones, for instance.To be fair, it's not just celebrities or sports stars...there's surgeons, lawyers, top level scientists, supreme court justices, mayors, governors, and business owners of all kinds.
If you genuinely believe that society is so unfair to blacks that they cannot achieve their goals without widespread changes...how do you explain all the successful black people?
None, because it has very little to do with the issue of oppression.Then how many presidents with black skin have to be voted into office as president before the accusations of oppression (as a race) stops?
Celebrities, millionaires and billionaires are very tiny portions of the population, and do not represent a majority in any real way.How many black people have to be celebrities and politicians? How many need to become millionaires and billionaires? The more I see black people succeeding, the less credibility the idea of them being "oppressed" has.
Society needs widespread changes to make it easier for black people to become successful, because without those changes, it is much more difficult for them to be those things. It's not a coincidence that there are far fewer black doctors than white ones, for instance.
One black president doesn't outweigh thirty-seven million black non-presidents.
None, because it has very little to do with the issue of oppression.
Celebrities, millionaires and billionaires are very tiny portions of the population, and do not represent a majority in any real way.
There is little to no systematic racism against white people in the real world.
....yet somehow, there's a lot of highly successful, well educated, and influential black people at every level of U.S. society.
Society needs widespread changes to make it easier for black people to become successful, because without those changes, it is much more difficult for them to be those things. It's not a coincidence that there are far fewer black doctors than white ones, for instance.
One black president doesn't outweigh thirty-seven million black non-presidents.
Obama got more votes than any white president before or after him. Funny how a racist society seems to not hurt a black presidential candidate by a single vote.
No systematic racism against whites? Either your live in a cave and never heard of things like "Affirmative Action" or you're a Democrat who doesn't care telling the truth.
I think you either quoted the wrong person on accident...or you changed my post to say something I didn't say.
If it's the former, no worries, just edit it and fix the mistake please. If it's the latter, I would want you to know it's against the rules and I'd like an apology.
...I'm sure that has something to do with his popularity, and something to do with the increase in population.
The point is though that regardless of the circumstances they were born into...blacks all over the nation have gone on to lead successful lives.
Sorry.... But, it's pretty bad form of you to assume I would deliberately attribute someone else's quote to you.
Lame. Obama got more votes than either Trump or Hillary, who came along after Obama, after the population increased. And, the population didn't increase enough to offset much racism against blacks, from the previous election. And, regardless of population growth, an inexperienced, previously unknown, far-left black candidate still trounced a white candidate in the election, twice (and white candidates in the Democrat primaries).
The point is, there's no evidence of systematic racism in America against blacks.
Just the opposite, in fact. A white Obama wouldn't have made it to the White House.
When measured by objective performance criteria, blacks are "more successful" than whites. The most concrete example is black SAT scores vs. college admissions.
They often are, inadvertently or otherwise. As a group, they often don't have to perform at the same level to get admitted to universities or other academic programs at the same rate as other groups.Not sure what you're claiming here. You believe blacks are being held to a lower standard by college admission offices?
Sullivan's piece, rife with generalizations about a group as vastly diverse as Asian-Americans, rightfully raised hackles. Not only inaccurate, his piece spreads the idea that Asian-Americans as a group are monolithic, even though parsing data by ethnicity reveals a host of disparities; for example, Bhutanese-Americans have far higher rates of poverty than other Asian populations, like Japanese-Americans. And at the root of Sullivan's pernicious argument is the idea that black failure and Asian success cannot be explained by inequities and racism, and that they are one and the same; this allows a segment of white America to avoid any responsibility for addressing racism or the damage it continues to inflict.
They often are, inadvertently or otherwise. As a group, they often don't have to perform at the same level to get admitted to universities or other academic programs at the same rate as other groups.
Are we seeing more unsourced racist postings trying to pit Asians against black people? I will tell you, Asians do not like being treated as a pawn by white people to justify racism against black people. They are sick and tired of it.
'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks
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