Here is something I wrote on the bus, so don't be too critical.
Discrimination is not bad. It is only the preference of a person over one thing or another acted out in the real world. Choosing Pepsi over Coke (Pepsi ROCKS!) is as discriminating as a shop owner never hiring African-Americans. It just so happens that Coke does not have feelings (but Pepsi does!) and the African-American people do. Everyone has a right to their own choices as long as they make those choices ALONE, with no one telling them what to think. Sadly, many people accept what the news says, or who their parents vote for as true and right. You have to break free of the mind police and like the guy from 1894, find a place away from the television. Think about both sides and consider the consequences of your actions/choice/(ultimately) life.
We naturally have preferences. And yes, we have the right to have them. Or should I say, we do not the right to stop some one from having them. But it is different in different situations. Your Cola example is based on solid fact, you like the taste of Pepsi better. Yet Racial preferences do nothing but halt our progress in society. The statistics show people have reason to discriminate against blacks. Higher crime rates, lower grades, worse jobs, poorer. Yet we discourage it because if the prejudice continues, blacks will never better themselves. Eliminating prejudice allows the blacks to climb the ladder. Also, many prejudices are ignorant and unjust. We come to conclusions too quickly, and then generalize. So, yes, we have the right to discrimination as long as it does not hinder progress. I would not however, go so far as to say it is good or bad.
ReplyDeleteThe reason for the African-American crime rates and poverty is the 100 years of poverty they faced. So it is the discrimination that caused the lower quality of living, not the other way around.
ReplyDeleteThe reason they are the way the are or were was because they started with nothing, at the bottom of the social ladder. The high crime rates and low education is not just a factor among blacks but all poorer people. It just so happened that blacks were all poor because they were slaves. This high crime rate and low education, misinterpreted, heated the fire that discrimination. My point is that continued prejudice continued their social status. They would be slaves now still if people up north we as prejudiced as the south. The reason they are becoming more and more equal with whites is the fact that we are not racist towards them. The reason I said we have reason to be prejudiced against them was just to prove that a grocer, given the choice would statistically be wise to keep an eye on the black person not the white person. Yet we have to prevent ourselves from making these racial preferences so as not to build up or prejudice and halt their social rise to equality.
ReplyDeleteoh ya btw, its 1948 not 1894
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