Sure you can. It is very easy.
Only if you are an oblivious MAGAt sucking up Trump's white Grievance bullshit.
Nope, that is your white guilt talking.
Nope, it's your white grievance. The rich have fucked you for decades, but they've gotten you to blame the minorities, feminists, and gays for your failures.
How many middle-lower class white kids know that a regatta is? How many poor white kids in WV know what a regatta is? It is not a racially biased question, but rather an economic one. The article you posted even stated that.
But - again- that white kid didn't have 400 years that included slavery, Jim Crow, miscegenation laws, etc., to keep them down.
What advantages does the poor white kid growing up in the double-wide you so much like to talk about have? He goes to a poorly funded public school in the hills. He has no money for tutoring or SAT coaching. His parent’s didn’t graduate high school or maybe even dropped out of middle school and are unable to help. Maybe his parent’s are meth heads. Do you think this kid has some kind of advantage due to his skin color? What advantage would that be? Certainly not college admissions.
Sure. He has the advantage of being white.
I can give you my own life as an example. My mother's parents were poor dirt farmers from Missouri. My father's parents were poor immigrants from Germany who barely had the contents of steamer trunks. I recently found the building my grandparents owned by 1940, it was smaller than my condo. But yet, being white, my parents never had a problem finding good-paying jobs after the War. Dad got into a union and made good money. Mom got a job as an art teacher despite only having limited higher education. (This was back in the good old days when they realized you didn't need a master's degree to teach kids how to finger paint.)
I was the first in the family to get a Bachelor's degree. (Sadly, my parents didn't live to see it.) The generation that followed mine has six Bachelor Degrees and three master's degrees.
Was a lot of this due to hard work? Absolutely! But a lot of it was due to the fact that people making the hiring decisions were the same skin color I am.
Nope, we do not OWE blacks. There is no more excuse for a black kid today growing up in poverty not to succeed than the white kid described above, in fact, the black kid has access to more minority specific programs than the white kid. If the poor white kid goes into a McDonalds to get his first job, he stands no better chance at landing that job than the poor black kid simply based on his skin color.
Bullshit for the statement above. Being black means you are still treated differently by law enforcement. White kids get probation, black kids get prison.
The problem isn't getting a job at McDonalds. NOBODY wants those jobs anymore, which is why every time I go to one, they are often short-staffed and the people behind the counter are immigrants who will get your order wrong half the time.
The problem is advancing beyond those jobs.
now, here's the thing. Through High School and College, I worked minimum-wage jobs (in addition to serving in the reserves) to pay for college. Back then, you could do that. The gap between tuition and minimum wage was such that you could pay your tuition working a mere 10 hours a week. Now you'd have to work 50 hours a week at minimum wage to pay fo the same school. So this "pull yourself up by the bootstraps stuff" is kind of nonsense, and only benefits those who already have privilege.
Now, let’s flip the kids around in your scenario. Guess what, the black kid not only gets the benefit of having more access to SAT coaches and the like, but also gets to play ‘woe is me’ race card despite growing up in affluence. If you really thought it through, you would base DEI or AA on economics, not race. More black kids may still benefit due to their lack of economic resources, but at least it wouldn't be a race based policy.
Guy, there are not that many rich black kids who are living lives of affluence. But if there were, I'd still give them the advantage anyway. Why? Because as I pointed out, the only way you are going to ever equal the playing field is to have people of color in the positions of power and influence.
You are misinformed and brainwashed on multiple levels. I guess that is what tends to happen when you are surrounded by leftists your entire life pounding this nonsense into your head since pre-school. It is no coincidence that both Democrats and Communists use this same “education” plan to garner long-term support. It is very hard to break that conditioning. I would ask you to think for yourself for once instead of spewing nonsense about institutionalized racism, voter disenfranchisement and all the other complete rubbish your party promotes, but that would be counter to your conditioning. Very few are wise enough or have the fortitude to do so.
Guy, I was very right wing until about 2008. Then a Romney-loving boss decided to screw me over because I had medical issues that, while they didn't really effect my productivity, ran up some very expensive insurance bills. So when the first round of job cuts came in 2008, I was on the chopping block. When I pointed out my years of service to the company and seniority, he said, "This is why I am glad I don't have to deal with a union." I probably could have sued their asses for medical discrimination, but I took my lumps and I moved on.
But I realized an important thing. The Republicans don't care about working people. Never have. Never will. There's a reason why 10 of the last 11 recessions happened when Republicans were in charge. It's not a bug, it's a design feature.
Sadly, as long as stupid white people continue to let the GOP play on their racial, religious, and sexual fears, we aren't going to fix what's wrong with this country.