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What are you talking about?
Here's what I'm talking about:
Brown v. Board of Education - Wikipedia
Segregation academy - Wikipedia
Runyon v. McCrary - Wikipedia
No, in other (accurate) words, your ideas have merit, but must be implemented carefully.
You can't "raise yourself" by your own bootstraps.....
You criticized most of them, thus the hopelessness.
Sure you can. I did.If a minority kid can get a job at a fast food place he or she can become financially secure or even rich.
One big problem is that many poor people, especially kids, spend what little they have pretending they are not poor.
What would be your time frame for getting any individual out of poverty?
I guess you don't want truth with every subject, after all.
Raising yourself up by your bootstraps is a romanticism that feeds an individual's own pride and vanity. Every single person was helped up by another, which makes the message of a place like America so much more ironic considering how differently demographics are changed.
You didn't raise yourself from your own bootstraps; you had help like everyone else did. This cliche is to justify NOT helping people who are considered undesirable, because of the "accessibility" of the American dream. Very dangerous since there is such dehumanization against some demographics (and has been).
Just to make sure, are you trolling me?
I'm talking about today's problems, not ancient history.
The 'system' isn't against minorities. Check out who is employed in the service industry...mostly minorities. Those aren't permanent positions but 'entry level' jobs for poor people, upon which a good lifestyle can be built, if managed properly.
To be successful on the job: Cheerfully serve everyone; your boss, the customers, and fellow employees.
These admonitions should be posted in every school and workplace.
It was a sarcastic response. If someone says something can't done, who am I to argue.
Of course you are.
Since when are 1954 and 1976 "ancient history"?
This implies minorities are disproportionately in need of these social and psychological tropes, while at the same time ignoring the fact that the vast majority of minorities 1) follow the law, 2) care and take care of their children, and 3) treat all education as if it were paramount to fundamental growth.
People repeat a lot of myths about minorities on here, like the absent black father myth. But even so, this does not change the systemic oppression detailed in the multiple DOJ reports on police departments across the country. But this is how racism works, it subjugates a group and then blames them for subjugation.Smarter people than you or I have often cited these fundamentals for success in regards to the poor and minorities.
So who said it can't be done? Who are you "not" arguing with?
People repeat a lot of myths about minorities on here, like the absent black father myth. But even so, this does not change the systemic oppression detailed in the multiple DOJ reports on police departments across the country. But this is how racism works, it subjugates a group and then blames them for subjugation.
Do you see a return to those days?
OWG: We, and themselves, not holding them to higher standards, especially in education.TLK: What do you think screwed up the community?
Citing a small percentage succeeding despite racism does not mean that reforms to address that racism should not be pursued. Some black people had mansions in the 1960s, that doesn't mean that we ignore housing discrimination (which according to some posters here, they participate in).And yet many individuals attain success.
Citing a small percentage succeeding despite racism does not mean that reforms to address that racism should not be pursued.
"Not holding them to higher standards" is a strange way of describing a systematic effort to keep them uneducated.
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