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I'm so sick and tired of the race card. My parents are immigrants. They didn't have the language privelage that [non-white] natives have. It's such a sorry excu

I'm so sick and tired of the race card. My parents are immigrants. They didn't have the language privelage that [non-white] natives have. It's such a sorry excuse blaming your failure on others. There will always be inequality in the world. Somehow against the odds my parents worked their asses off and put our family in a favorable position. It took working two jobs, going to school for 8 years but somehow they did it. I can't stand hearing racial this or that. But to appease the racists out there, Morgan Freeman has many times been asked if it's impossible to be successful as a black person, to which his response was 'look at where I am now, that is evidence that you can be successful" [paraphrased]. You have to want it, not whine about something else.

peterhadlaw 11y ago
Don't understand why the down vote.
- random28345 11y ago
  > Don't understand why the down vote. Because you're weighing in on a complicated subject without considering your inherent biases. You're conflating the success of individuals with equal opportunity. Having a black president doesn't mean we're in a post-racial society, being able to point to black athletes and movie stars doesn't mean there's no disaprites in educational funding or discrimination in employment. But worst of all, you've decided that because your advantages of birth are invisble to you, they must not exist. This is like deciding you don't have a cornea because you can't see it directly. Look in a mirror, and instead of dismissing the idea of privilige, see if you can actually see it in your life experience. Perhaps you can look here as a starting point. https://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/1662103.pdf https://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/1662103.pdf
  - peterhadlaw 11y ago
    > There will always be inequality in the world. I'm not dismissing inequality. I'm saying that b!tching about it gets you nowhere and even worse, is a sorry excuse. There will always be people with more and with less. If you want more, you go out and get it, for yourself, by yourself, against all odds. And what advantages are you talking about? Because I was referring to my parents who grew up in communist Poland, where my mom as a kid dragged the entire stores worth of butter home after rations were lifted. As a kid, in complete innocence, bought all the butter in the store because she was afraid of there not being more butter in the future. Or my dad, who to this day, still has bread soaked in milk as his ingrained go to food when hungry.

peterhadlaw 11y ago

Don't understand why the down vote.

random28345 11y ago
> Don't understand why the down vote. Because you're weighing in on a complicated subject without considering your inherent biases. You're conflating the success of individuals with equal opportunity. Having a black president doesn't mean we're in a post-racial society, being able to point to black athletes and movie stars doesn't mean there's no disaprites in educational funding or discrimination in employment. But worst of all, you've decided that because your advantages of birth are invisble to you, they must not exist. This is like deciding you don't have a cornea because you can't see it directly. Look in a mirror, and instead of dismissing the idea of privilige, see if you can actually see it in your life experience. Perhaps you can look here as a starting point. https://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/1662103.pdf https://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/1662103.pdf
- peterhadlaw 11y ago
  > There will always be inequality in the world. I'm not dismissing inequality. I'm saying that b!tching about it gets you nowhere and even worse, is a sorry excuse. There will always be people with more and with less. If you want more, you go out and get it, for yourself, by yourself, against all odds. And what advantages are you talking about? Because I was referring to my parents who grew up in communist Poland, where my mom as a kid dragged the entire stores worth of butter home after rations were lifted. As a kid, in complete innocence, bought all the butter in the store because she was afraid of there not being more butter in the future. Or my dad, who to this day, still has bread soaked in milk as his ingrained go to food when hungry.