Chairman-Mao said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States#Role_of_education Looking at the chart on Wikipedia there (i know not a good source but whatever) it shows a person with a Bachelors degree makes nearly twice as much as just a high school graduate ($26,000 vs $49,000). And in North America there is no excuse not to get into college/university. I know college/university is expensive but there are so many grants/scholarships available if a person works hard in high school (which is free via taxes) and even if you don't qualify for a scholarship you can get a government student loan (at least in Canada) which you don't have to start paying back until I think a couple years after you graduate, or it might even be after you find a job after graduating. I don't buy into that whole bull shit that the only opportunities poor black people have are either sports or joining gangs/selling drugs. Black people have just as much opportunity as white people to go to high school and get good marks and go to college. |
As a college student myself, I know that there is a gigantic correlation between level of education and liftime amount of money earned. This still does not take away the fact that many more white people (including myself) are born into families with longer histories of wealth and education. This puts everyone of them at an advantage over any minority. The color of my skin alone gives me many advantages over those who were born with more melanin in theirs. Even though th largest amount of impoverished people are whites in the US this is probably only because this is still a country were the majority is mostly white.
I would never say people should use there bad luck as an excuse to not work hard and make something better for themselves, but many people have so much less benificial qualities, intelligance being one of the most important
