| theprof00 said: Look, I definitely the system needs to be upgraded. But I don't think it should be abolished. You aren't offering any solutions though kasz, you are just saying that black people don't know what to do with the money they are helped to attain through AA. What you need to understand, is that you have no idea. Statistics cannot even begin to scratch the surface of what it's like to be an African American in today's society. This picture perfect idea that blacks and whites are now on equal financial and emotional standing, where its OK for "every man for himself", is incredibly unrealistic. It makes you sound very naive. It's crappy, it sucks, but it's true. The workload of an African-American man compared to a white man is beyond your comprehension, statistics and all. It's honestly not your fault that you don't understand because you were not born into that situation. I think you should read some things that differ with your opinions instead of reading books that you already agree with. Play devil's advocate once in a while. I'm going to bed, and I never want to have this "discussion" again. |
None of that is what I am saying. You seem to miss the point completly.
Equity inequality HAS GROWN since the Civil Rights era.
That is what I am saying.
Affirmitive Action does not help this... all it does is create minor racism and make people complacent. It looks like things have gotten better when it comes to the income gap. They have gotten worse. Despite people being a lot racist then they used to be.
The ways to fix this would be.
A) Greatly raise the estate tax... this slows down transitional wealth and would bring things back to average.
B) Come up with a measure... by which money is distributed to black people in a way that is consistant with national wealth. A one time "slavery reprerations" lottery. This while the most effective would be very politically incorrect for numerous reasons.
C) Pass laws that make transitive wealth less of a factor. Make it so that parents for example can't give their kids assets for loans, make school districts nation wide random to where your kid is assigned... this kind of stuff.
D) Pass laws that provide transivive wealth. Instead of quotas for example. African Americans that are of the same income level get so much of a "transivtive grant" from the government for money down to buy a home and get a home loan in a better neighberhood.
E) Replace income tax with wealth tax.
All Affirmitive action does is try and bail water out of a boat rather then fixing the holes. Furthermore you use other poor people as a bucket. Lots of whom had nothing to do with the transitive wealth gap in the first place and are also victims of a lack of transitive wealth.
