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> Success is ... a multi-generational task Hence the momentum to address the monstrous differences in opportunity that have been created after many, many gener
by brayhite 7y ago
> Success is ... a multi-generational task
Hence the momentum to address the monstrous differences in opportunity that have been created after many, many generations of treating particular groups of Americans as second-class if not outright sub-human.
- javajosh 7y agoPresumably once the downward pressure is removed, the oppressed group will recover, no? I am troubled by the impulse to see society as this simplistic set of oppressors and oppressed. It seems that almost every group got to play both roles at one time or another in various combinations. And it seems weird to want to pay back a debt racked up by an ancestor. Or not even an ancestor, just an ancestor of someone who looks like your ancestors. Anyway, I don't think you help oppressed people like that, I think you help them by going in there and teaching and being positive about the real opportunities available - to go to college, get a job, earn a living. Live in a bougie neighborhood, maybe.
- BuckRogers 7y agoIt's not just racial. It's largely class based, which can be tied to race. It's less oppressors vs oppressed, but more ownership class vs working class. That's why schemes that involve ownership stakes for the average person work out so well. People need to have some skin in the game (society, economically), to feel like a part of it and that they matter. Cut them out due to ownership-class greed and you have a recipe for disaster. Not just human suffering, which is bad enough to purposefully enable on your fellow man, but revolution. Class struggle is the mainstay in societies throughout the ages.