chocoloco said:
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 |
I don't really agree that being white is an advantage anymore. Honestly its starting to become a disadvantage if anything. I can tell you for a fact that if in Canada you want the most opportunity in life you want to be born Native, not white. If you are native your entire education is free (grade school, high school and university), you pay no tax on everyday items, and as well as your university being free you have a better chance of being accepted (there is a box to check on university applications if you are native, which automatically gives you better odds of being accepted).
I can't speak for the USA but in Canada being white is almost (not yet, but almost) a disadvantage. There is so much emphasis on helping minorities succeed that they forget about their majority.
I still see how its hard to be born black into an impoverished area but I think many use that as an excuse for failure. They'd rather not try to fulfill their potential, and blame their failure and poverty on the white man. If a white man fails and falls into poverty he has no such excuse. He can't blame anyone but himself, but as for any minority, he can just use the white man keeping him down as a cop out. "I dropped out of school at 14 but its totally not my fault, the white man is keeping me down"...shit like that.
I do feel bad for the lower class who tried their best and fell upon bad circumstances/bad luck andd are impoverished. Somehow there needs to be a way to help these types of people get back on their feet but not help the lazy assholes who don't try at life and still look for a handout so they have money to go to the liquor store and buy weed.
