Asclepias
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The white class. You cant hire if you dont have a foot hold into the industry or own the companies that do the hiring. Its been a racial issue every since they decided Black people were 3/5ths of humans and then only so people that wanted to keep them enslaved could vote against the best interests of the enslaved. If the south was not trying to use Blacks for votes Blacks would have been considered non-human. Thats a race issue all day long and twice on Sundays.This is still a class issue first babyYour friend may have a good point. However that would only relate to class based discrimination. The problem is primarily racial with class being a second variable. Just saw this article where Black males with AA degrees have the same chance of getting a job as whites with just HS diploma.Traditionally Blacks, East Indian etc did not traditionally prefer lighter skin. Africans and Indians prayed to Black gods. The preference for lighter skin has only come into vogue with the advent of white imperialism. People always want to look like the group that is in charge. Life is easier and they are taught to hate their skin color if it does not reflect the dominant culture.Does White privilege include
not having to bleach your skin to look White
if your skin is already light enough?
Because not just Black but also Asian and Latino cultures
have traditionally associated lighter skin with
the upper class and darker skin with the working class,
then do I still have some degree of
White privilege by having lighter skin as an Asian.
Is it skin color association?
is it White class privilege?
or is it White as in caucasian/European and race?
P.S. anyone who says all races are the same
should check with the bone marrow statistics on matching
donors by race, and the registration outreach that
specifically targets the following as separate genetic pools
as necessary to match types and save lives:
Asian and Pacific Islander
African
Latino
Native American
These 4 groups have only 1 in 10 chances of finding a bone marrow
match by HLA. They are harder to match, and biracial are almost impossible.
In contrast the Caucasians have 9 in 10 chances
because they are more easily compatible with other
Caucasians and not as difficult to find a match.
There are 10 different factors that have to match
and transplant operations are only done if 8 of those 10 match.
For Whites/Caucasians, these factors are easier to match
with 9 out of 10 chance of finding a donor.
for the other minority groups, only 1 out of 10 chances.
It is completely random. You can have as many people sign up,
and the numbers don't increase the probability because it is so small.
You just have to get lucky and find one.
So the drives to get minorities to register as donors
aren't about improving the odds, but just finding the needle
in the haystack that matches someone on the list.
So you can call that White privilege
that you have 9 out of 10 chances
of saving your life if you need a bone marrow donor
vs. 1 out of 10 if you are Asian, African, Latino or Native American.
Sample reference source:
Marrow Matches for Minorities Are Harder to Find - Bone Marrow Transplants
Caucasians have a smaller gene pool than other races. Thats why they have an increased chance at matching.
Whites Genetically Weaker Than Blacks Study Finds Fox News
"Europeans went through a second "population bottleneck," probably about 30,000 years ago, when the ancestral population was again reduced to relatively few in number."
Dear Asclepias I really like your explanation of where this preference came from.
One friend said the class division came from when people who gathered and stored MEAT
were valued greater than the field workers who gathered Plants Grains and Vegetables.
So he used this to explain the historic dominance of the management/owner class
that has technology for storing, transporting and mass marketing the more VALUABLE products
vs. the workers who don't have those resources and their jobs are to work the fields,
they are more plentiful and so they are valued less in the chain from bottom to top.
Then he used this to explain how MEN were valued as the hunters and meat gatherers
so their roles were valued greater in society over the women and field hands who stayed at home
and managed the crops and fruit/vegetable picking. (another theory says because of this role in picking fruits
and vegetables when ripe, more women kept and developed the ability to discern colors especially red/green
for survival, while men don't need this trait so color blindness runs in men)
I think this explanation takes the pressure off just blaming whites or blacks, men or women,
and shows that it is development of society in classes that causes this separation and dominance of one over others.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing more of the cultural history behind this so people can see the common patterns.
The more we see we are affected in common, we realize it is an issue of human development that involves all of us.
A Black Male With A Degree And A White High School Grad Have The Same Chances Of Getting A Job
"Several studies have pointed out the evident racial achievement gap but recent research has revealed a sad truth -- an African-American male with an associate degree has the same chances of getting a job as a white male with a high school diploma."
Because guess which class does the hiring.
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