Quote:
Originally Posted by mickmoranis
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
you just choose to look at the surface of the problems, meaning skin color and then assuming that is the culprit.
|
Nope, quite to the contrary I agree that a lot of the problems some minorities face are a direct result of their social class, not their skin color (although of course how people react to that skin color and how that minority came to be poor are both related to their historical disadvantage ...).
In fact, you may have noticed that in my "treatise" on how we solve race problems one of my central points was that we should target lower social classes for help, with the assumption being that since minorities are disproportionately poor, if you help the poor you wind up helping more minorities than white people. Forget about (for instance) affirmative action based on race: if you give poor kids in general an advantage over rich kids, you effectively give an advantage to minorities (or at least the poorer ones that really need it).
But at the same time, there are some legitimate color issues. Cops don't just pull over, frame, beat, etc. poor people, they target blacks and Latinos (and this has been proven empirically: eg.
Boston police target blacks disproportionately) . No matter how rich you are (and there have been examples of black senators, businessmen, etc. facing this) cops treat you different based on the color of your skin. This is the sort of thing we can only combat by using one of the other key points in my treatise, the one about changing how African-Americans are represented in TV and other pop culture so that cops (who are only human and watch the same TV as the rest of us) won't see/treat minorities differently.