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The black family was only endangered because of those very same people who wrote all sorts of asinine rules for the social safety net programs that penalized st
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
The black family was only endangered because of those very same people who wrote all sorts of asinine rules for the social safety net programs that penalized stable households, penalized married couples and penalized above the table jobs.
Were they poor? Sure. Were they marginalized? You bet. But the single mother, the child without a father figure and the idle black man were not serious issues, let alone stereotypes, until after people tried to "help" them.
- golergka 5y agoSeems like they purposefully created people now dependent on these government programs in order to secure electorate.
- oslsla 5y agoNo, it's more complex than that. Racism in large portions of the united states still exists today. Individuals are not given opportunites in the u.s. simply because of something as simple as their last name. While people may base on DEI initiatives in the majority of America in non large corporate and even on those companies they are still refused if any opportunities which add on each other resulting in inequality.
- golergka 5y agoI don't understand how anything of what you wrote (which, BTW, I agree with) contradicts my point.
- themitigating 5y agoThose programs are given to people based on economic situations not race.
- golergka 5y agoJust as another sibling comment this is both obviously true and doesn't contradict my point in any way.
- QuarterReptile 5y agoMore likely, the misplaced notions of how to easily fix a complex problem created people dependent on them these government programs, which have in turn perpetuated an electorate. I don't mean to say that good intentions justify the policy, as the 20th century disproved time and time again, but your phrasing attributes malice or cynicism where none is needed or helpful.
- oslsla 5y agoAlso horribly flawed. In several states if you are not white your resume is just thrown in the trash. There are several studies on this. People simply do not like others who they do not see as equals or as similar to them.
- ponow 5y agoSo that somehow justifies unequal treatment of people in another state? The only long term solution is not being part of the problem by discriminating on anything except on value brought to the job.
- zo1 5y agoI don't think we can attribute as much of that happening to racism only. With all the DEI initiatives happening its becoming more so the case that people are seeing through the experience and realizing a lot of the accomplishments by minorities are due to favoritism and "help" than actual experience. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant because people believe it. I personally feel bad for the dedicated, accomplished and smart minority developers that I've met. They get drowned out in all the noise caused by these DEI drives. Worst of all, we can't even talk about it.
- QuarterReptile 5y agoI wasn't meaning to imply that federal legislative action was the solution; I considered that question to be outside the scope of my comment.