Reply #50: Wow

[beaconess]

"women and people of color {are} usually are too poor to be able to switch jobs and are living on the edge of homelessness."
Oh, really? 75% of black people are NOT poor.

"White men though seem to have a tendency to take risks. Take a look around and see who are in the riskiest jobs or even riskiest sports, it's white men."
Oh. Thank God for all those brave white men who were so willing to take the risk of allowing black men and women to do the hardest, most dangerous, most back-breaking jobs while they stood around, and supervised and got rich off of the sweat of lazy, risk-aversion black folk (when they weren't raping their women and selling their children and passing and upholding laws that kept them from voting and from owning property and from living where they wanted and going to decent schools and telling them that the only reason their lives weren't better was that they were just too damned lazy or ignorant to do as well as white folk)

And all white men didn't have an easy time in this country either. Any ethnicity but English had a really difficult time when they first came to America, a number of them came here as indentured servants.
Yes - if only black slaves and their progeny were as willing to take risks and work as hard as white immigrants and indentured servants, we, TOO, would be much further along today.

With blacks or latinos it may be their culture,
Stereotype much?


The people who are/were the most successful, are/were the people who didn't see the racism or sexism, they just saw their goal.
And you know that the most successful black people "didn't see racism and sexism" how?

FYI, I am a very successful black person - and I see racism and sexism every day of my life. I have managed to do well, not just because I had a goal and worked hard, but because I had opportunities that many people don't have - and because Affirmative Action opened doors for me that had been closed to many of those who came before me and enabled me to shine and succeed once I got through the door (and even once through the door, I STILL had to combat racism and sexism).