Sometimes I wonder why this question is even worth the effort that is required to have an interesting debate. In my opinion, it all can be summed up quite nicely. As long as we, as a nation of culture and a worldwide culture, allow the statisticial seperation of every race, gender, and creed are we not allowing the roots of seperation to thrive? It seems to me that mankind in a whole has become so intelligent that we have somehow managed to overlook the roots to some very meaningful questions. If I have learned anything throughout any of the classes that I have taken it is that before you can find an ending, you must first find a beginning. How far back is one willing to go to find the answer to the poverty levels of the black race?
Should we begin with the introduction of crack into the black communities? Or maybe the so- called freedom of all African-Americans? Or maybe we should start with the slave ships that carried them to this country? Or maybe we should start with the poverty of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. How far back are you willing to go to answer this question? Is it even meaningful enough to answer?
Perhaps I am just a crazy idealist, but the question in itself is prejudice. Not just to the black race, but to all of mankind. I know from my own experiences that I would be better off singing to a bowl of jellybeans rather than speaking intelligently to the matters of prejudice. At least the jellybeans are colorful.
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Sometimes I wonder why this question is even worth the effort that is required to have an interesting debate. In my opinion, it all can be summed up quite nicely. As long as we, as a nation of culture and a worldwide culture, allow the statisticial seperation of every race, gender, and creed are we not allowing the roots of seperation to thrive? It seems to me that mankind in a whole has become so intelligent that we have somehow managed to overlook the roots to some very meaningful questions. If I have learned anything throughout any of the classes that I have taken it is that before you can find an ending, you must first find a beginning. How far back is one willing to go to find the answer to the poverty levels of the black race? Should we begin with the introduction of crack into the black communities? Or maybe the so- called freedom of all African-Americans? Or maybe we should start with the slave ships that carried them to this country? Or maybe we should start with the poverty of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. How far back are you willing to go to answer this question? Is it even meaningful enough to answer? Perhaps I am just a crazy idealist, but the question in itself is prejudice. Not just to the black race, but to all of mankind. I know from my own experiences that I would be better off singing to a bowl of jellybeans rather than speaking intelligently to the matters of prejudice. At least the jellybeans are colorful.