Race/Class/Gender/etc. Do they still matter?

[mchaza]

Games4Fun said:

mrstickball said:

No, not really.

It matters only when people want to take it as a problem.

For example, your statement about men/women making different money is totally wrong. It's been proven for awhile that men and women, provided they do the same work, will get paid the same.

As for your claim about race and drugs, the bureau of Justice disagrees. As per their statistics, many more blacks are jailed for drug dealing because there are simply more black drug dealers than whites in comparison to users. http://www.jrsa.org/ibrrc/using-data/data_quality/data_elements/drug/drug_examples.shtml

As per their data, 69% of all incarcerated for drug offenses are by whites. But for dealers, its a 50/50 split between blacks and whites.

In the end, the reason (I think) they are still issues are because people still push them as problems, and complain about them. When we stop seeing people as male/female/black/white/straight/gay, we can judge people based on quality and character, which is a far more useful metric for defining worth.

Unfortunetly race does indeed still matter for the States as a whole. Now, thats not to say ever single person is racist as that is far from the truth but lets have a small look at the income levels of different races.

 

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0689.pdf

 

look at the difference in thoose that make less than 15k now look over at the median income between black and whites. That is a huge difference it shows race is still a problem on at least this level. This from the goverment.

So? Is that an big problem. See Racism in Amercia is caused by i mentioned above but is compound greatly by the News. 

yep the News is the number 1 cause of racism in the US and in many countries when news is consumed by mass. If the News Never brang up racism and leaning about racism in Schools etc was never done racism would be so much lower, and the hate form "black people" and segergation would of died out over time. 

Also i like to point out about above, there are Poor White people and Poor Black people and there are Poor yellow skined people. There is no clear sepeartion that all these people are getting more than these people. 

also about the imprisionment, if you replace skin with hair colour you might find out that Brown hair or black hair people are more likely to end up in prision. the reason is there are more black hair or brown hair people commiting crimes than Blonde or red hair people.