JoeB131
Diamond Member
I think those who oppose the policy need to go back and take a real honest look at how things really happened.
Some people here don't really don't understand what personal responsibility entails. People of color face racism in this country all people of color. Whites like Joe and a few others have adopted Asians as racial mascots and try using them as examples. If you look at the Asian population, the highest earners are Indians. They are the ones making over 100,000 per year. And many of them came here because of a special government preference called the H1B Visa that assures them high paying jobs once they get here.
Actually, they are a good example because they work hard. And even if you take Indians out of the equation, Asians still do pretty well. One of my dearest friends is a Filipina who came here on a marriage visa. She started out as a purchasing intern 15 years ago. Today she's a director of Supply Chain. What makes that more impressive is she took a couple of years off to have a baby. Another coworker of mine was a Japanese woman who came here on a student Visa, went to work for various companies. She could probably make a lot more money working for a Japanese company because she is fully bilingual, but she realizes as a woman, she'll get treated with more respect at an American company. (Or to be precise, the British company we both worked for at the time.)
Take away the Indian income and the so called successful Asians income is much closer to black and hispanic, with some ethnicities in the Asian diaspora living at 30 percent poverty or higher with a high rate of high school dropouts.
Whites who are racists love Asians because their culture practices what is called gaman. Gaman is basically, shut up and take the abuse. The racist white subculture in America cherishes those who take the bullying and don't fight back. However, that's about to change because younger Asians are rejection gaman and there is a generational discussion going on in the Asian community on how to properly address the white racism they face.
That's actually a Japanese term meaning "perseverance" ... and frankly, what they actually practice is Rōdō rinri (A work ethic). Frankly, I know a lot of Second and third generation Asians. And rather than having this resentment of white people you seem to have, they assimilate. They marry white people, they move into white neighborhoods, they get nice office jobs. I've worked with Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Filipinos, and frankly, I'd rather work with them than a lot of white people.
Taking responsibility is more than blaming yourself for your problems so some white people on the internet can feel superior. Taking responsibility means looking at the problems, finding the root cause of that problem, then address it. I have stated that the root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism and I have all kinds of evidence that supports this assertion. Hollering about somebody being a victim is not a rebuttal to that evidence nor are opinions about blacks taking responsibility for our decisions from people who never have done the same.
Again, every ethnic group that isn't WASP has faced some kind of discrimination. The real problem is while other groups were working hard, blacks listened to race pimps like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, adopting what Heinlein called the Socialist Disease in its worst form, the belief the world owes you a living.
We don't have 20 times less wealth than whites because we made poor decisions. We don't have 2.7 percent of the wealth in this country while being 13 percent of the population because a man is not sitting on a recliner in a house with his woman and kids every night. Payscale and other human resource firms along with the National Women's Law Center have done work that shows that black men and black women earn less than white and that includes when everything else is the same.
Oh, get real. 80% of the population owns only 13% of the wealth.
A black couple makes something like 85 cents for every dollar a white couple makes and that pay disparity is not due to bad choices blacks have made and it certainly isn't because every black person is less qualified than whites.
Actually, 85 cents on the dollar isn't that bad. By comparison, women still make 84% of what men earn.