Originally posted by G.P.girl
well, this thread had certaintly progressed. i think some peole took what i was trying to say a little wrong, maybe i didn't write it very well, i didn't mean that we should just give scholarships to people because of their skin color, but i kind of thought of a good comparism, what if men started making a huge fuss and saying they're being sexually discriminated against? people would be like, shut up and quit whining, you've disriminated against women for years, just deal with it. it's kinda the same thing with the black-white thing, only since slavery ended so long ago, people think there isn't that much discrimination, just because it's not as public
I didn't take what you said wrong. I think you are really hitting it on the head. While I (being a white female, US born) can sit here and say, "I didn't discriminate against 'your people', so get over it", I know it isn't quite that cut and dried. The injustices have gone on for so long. It isn't righted easily. And, there are people that rely on handouts. God forbid I ever find myself in that position. I can imagine being so down in the dumps, feeling so oppressed (whether I am or I am not oppressed), and not having the guidance, education, will, whatever, to lift myself out. But, it is so hard to really live that feeling, since I have largely had everything I needed given to me-home, food, clothing, education, etc.

An example- current day, kind of- is the still disparate treatment between men and women in the workplace. Women today still earn less, dollar for dollar, than men. Same education, same job, different pay. And, women have been afforded 'equal treatment' for decades! And, arguably, never had it so bad as, say, those that were enslaved.

I did my senior thesis (college, way back when) on Affirmative Action. Funny, I seem to remember having a different view of things then. 20 years later (goodness, I can't believe I admitted that), I feel strongly against what I wrote then. Why? Cause I see it too often in the work place, in the justice system. While we might be closer to 'perfection', we aren't there yet.