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Originally Posted by FattyBoomBatty
beyond that you might notice that you won't be one quite the same playing field as one of them. You may be overqualified for a job and the perfect fit, but you'll be looked over or given a lesser position or pay simply because you're different. You could be fluent in the language and it wouldn't matter. You're an outsider.
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Hmm, sounds to me like Affirmative Action....
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Originally Posted by FattyBoomBatty
That's good. I'm not trying to get you to show that you can respect someone no matter what color their skin is, rather I'm trying to get you to understand in a deeper way how you can never know exactly what it's like for what you or I might call a "disadvantaged" person.
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How exactly are people of "other" colors so disadvantaged? I don't see any White only colleges, or White college funds, or a minimum number of whites required to be hired at a place of work.
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Originally Posted by FattyBoomBatty
Sure it's bad to knowingly take advantage of a system (i.e. slacking at work since no one is watching or having a bunch of kids to get more welfare money (and even that is a long term commitment)) but where there is a deliberate or unintended yet unchecked void in that system that could easily be filled by means of better education or opportunity, you can't blame it entirely on the ones who take advantage of that void. And although it may indeed be deliberate (such as a lack of supervision or instruction or what have you) it may be hard to perceive and therefore hard to overcome.
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How are "they" getting a sub-par education in the first place? Every race has the same opportunity for at least a High School education, not to mention all the college funds/tuition payment & re-payment programs/scholarships that people of color have. Did you know that in MN, You can get $1000 per semester just for being at least 50% black? And it is paid for by the state actually. I know this because my *gasp!!* black friend used it when she was going to college.