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If i was a boss, you better damn well guarentee id think twice before firing a URM even if he was doing a poor job...dont wanna deal with lawsuits.
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<p>aka reverse discrimination. </p>
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Todays generation is much more accepting then we were 10 yrs ago
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<p>Not really. Watch the news, and you'll see precisely what I'm referring to.</p>
<p>oh well. You'll do okay. I believe AA to be unjust, but hey... if you got it, there's nothing wrong with using it.</p>
<p>Doggie 311, people are too afraid to discriminate? I don't think you've lived in the south.</p>
<p>watch the news,there are more blacks then whites commiting crimes, holding up stores, getting in fights, etc..</p>
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watch the news,there are more blacks then whites commiting crimes, holding up stores, getting in fights, etc..
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or perhaps violent acts perpetrated by blacks are more readily accepted and thus broadcasted more often, while white violence is looked down upon and consequentially not shown.</p>
<p>the descrimination is based largely on the community where you live, if you're black by heritage, but grow up in suburbia you very well could assimilate into the "white" culture and experience no descrimination within it, but take that same person and take him on a road trip through parts of the deep south, and I'd be shocked if he didn't experience at least some. At my school there are few black kids, and the ones that there are don't really experience any prejudice, as I do live in the suburbs where most people are fairly accepting. It doesn't mean that it's like that everywhere though.</p>
<p>This just reinforces my claim that AA should be based not off of just skin color though, not all black people are discriminated against, just like not all white kids have advantages, and the overgeneralizations are what hurt race-relations in this country.</p>
<p>That's pretty true. But I say we take discussion to a thread besides this so it doesn't feed the presumed troll.</p>
<p>ya i lived in charleston...i know whats going on, im not ignorant i still stand by wut i said</p>
<p>Well, look at the opposite. If you take a white kid and move him/her to the "ghetto", don't you think he/she would experience more racism than a black kid in suburbia? I think that the messages we are feeding minorities is that they are discriminated against so they start to not trust any white people. I think this black history month and all this stuff isn't helping anything.</p>
<p>ya i lived in charleston now i live outside of NYC...i know whats going on, im not ignorant i still stand by wut i said</p>
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I think that the messages we are feeding minorities is that they are discriminated against so they start to not trust any white people
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so you're saying that the discrimination that african-americans feel is simply a figment of their imagination fed by the media, etc... i have personally experienced racism and discrimination, and i know that it was real and not "fed" to me. Secondly, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, etc. all have historical reasons not to trust white people. You can't just erase 200+ years of slavery and 100+ years of segregation and imply that African Americans have no reason not to trust white people. </p>
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I think this black history month and all this stuff isn't helping anything.
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are you saying that black history month perpetuates the distrust of white people by african americans, b/c that is simply not true. Every high school student is required to learn American History (at least at my high school) and this history is composed generally of white accomplishments/failures, etc. I must sit in this class learning this for 9 months of the year, but one month devoted to my own race can't be spared... you may not think so, but i find black history month comforting as it highlights the accomplishments of my race rather than the perceived failures that are always displayed on television (i.e crime, violence, poverty).</p>
<p>I don't know, but I go to a mostly white school. Our US History spends way more time on black accomplishments like Rosa Parks, Frances Perkins, and MLK and civil rights than anyone white. If it happens that lots of history was made by white people, so be it.</p>
<p>I didn't mean all the discrimination is created by the media etc, but I think a lot of it may be.</p>
<p>Isn't "that heritage" your heritage?</p>
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I didn't mean all the discrimination is created by the media etc, but I think a lot of it may be.
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have you ever been racially discriminated against? b/c if you haven't i don't really think that you are qualified to say that the majority of discrimination does not exist, rather it is simply a creation of our minds.</p>
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If it happens that lots of history was made by white people, so be it.
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i have no problem learning and enjoying American history and the accomplishments of great white Americans, i only take offense to you implying that Black History Month is pointless, b/c it's not.</p>
<p>ooo please...anyone can be discriminated against by anyone...i wouldnt just limit this down to white discriminating against blacks...Im a catholid italian, and i can tell you right now you go to some deep southern towns...I wont be accepted. To say that racism and discrimination is limited to NA and Blacks is just rediculous, everyone feels it sooner or later. Just be the better person and rise above it. The discrimination we see today will never prevent anyone from getting ahead...not if you wont let it, so dont even try and make that argument.</p>
<p>^^^you took the words right out of my mouth</p>
<p>I don't believe there's a limit to discrimination and the groups discriminated against either. But I think it's definately a problem, open or privately done so.</p>
<p>As far as AA goes I don't believe the mechanisms used really help discrimination, myself.</p>
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To say that racism and discrimination is limited to NA and Blacks is just rediculous, everyone feels it sooner or later
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i never said racism and discrimination were limited to Blacks and NA. in fact, the only time i mentioned Native Americans was in talking about the historical injustices done to them (and blacks and asians) by the white race. and even there, i inserted an "etc." in order to cover the other people who are discriminated against.</p>
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not if you wont let it, so dont even try and make that argument
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and i never tried to argue that racism and discrimination hold people back. i simply responded to peaches post that implied that A) discrimination does not really exist and B) black history month is pointless.</p>
<p>who said i was personally referencing you</p>
<p>i inferred it from the fact that my posts were the only ones that followed your previous post and the fact that no one on this page mentioned Native Americans but me.</p>
<p>but if you weren't referencing me, then who was your comment direct towards?</p>