Express Action Sports

I thought the civil-right activists of the segregation era were all about equality? It doesn’t seem so. Black Americans, whether they like it or not, have the upper-hand when it comes to success in the USA. Black scholarships, affirmative action, etc. Black people rarely have to try anymore and those that do and want to be recognized for their sole achievements can’t because of these systems that favor them. So, how does racism against black people still exist when they clearly have the upper-hand over minorities and even whites when it comes to earning an education and being successful?

we have the upper hand, how so? Let’s say for the sake of argument that affirmative action does require schools and businesses to hire 13% minorities. Who do you think represents the other 87 percent? And out of that 13% half will be white women, who by law, are considered a minority.

There are more white women attending college than anyone else, yet some of you all still complain about AA being unfair when it has clearly helped more whites than it has blacks.

As far as scholarships go, most of them are given to whites. One, because you all go to better schools which prepare you for college. And two because no one is coming into the inner city to give a black person a scholarship unless it’s for sports. They’ll give an athlete a $40,000 education because he’s going to earn them about $4,000,000 in ticket sales. More than that if you consider all the royalties they receive from merchandise sales.

We don’t have to try anymore? Are you kidding me? We have to try twice as hard just to prove ourselves to the rest of you that we didn’t succeed solely because of Affirmative Action. It’s white people who have jobs waiting for them because daddy knows someone in ABC corporation.

But you asked for examples of how racism still exists against blacks…here’s a few:
A person with a "black sounding" name is 50% less likely to get called for an interview than a person with a "white sounding" name.
A black person with the same education and experience as a white person will be paid 25% less.
A black person with no criminal record is less likely to find a job than a white person who has a criminal record.

Should girls be able to take part in extreme sports or not. What do you think?

just like all othre forms of "equality" or "affirmative action" it "levels the playing field" and thus is no longer extreme…
howver, if you pit women against women, fine.

in another question of mine, another person’s answer made me think of this question:
If YOU believe in affirmative action, should the action stop when employee percentages equal societies percentages?
What about professional sports (it is a paying job too)?
Should blacks be limited to 14-18% of the participants?
and what about college scollarships? (Force academic schollarships to equal the general public, what about sports scollarships?)
ethnic groups are not regulated as to there size nor their location, so why try to FORCE every quantifiable segment of society to mirro the society as a whole?
for every EBONY and JET magazine, should we have IVORY, PEARL, LINNEN, SNOW, CLOUD and another 28 magazines dedicated to our ‘racial’ group? (thus equality is again balanced)

Here’s the crux of it: Nobody wants equality. Everybody wants superiority.

Let’s take for example… That’s why men hate feminists. They say they feel threatened, because women want to be better than men, that is, to have more privileges than responsibilities. The truth is that men, likewise, want to be in higher standing than women, also. Nobody would mind having more privileges than responsibilities, or being in the dominant group. So it’s always a battle for social standing. The ideal of equality is a balance between opposing forces, but it is highly unstable and not likely to ever exist.

I gave the example of men and women, because it is usually less offensive (relatively speaking) than race, but I believe the same battle goes for the races. Nobody really wants equality, and it is just a nice way of putting the following statement, "I want more than I have currently," and it is less offensive if you really do have less than someone else… but if you have more, you don’t want to give it up, and so you may try to silently preserve your position.

I do not believe it is something unique to the race or the gender, though. If the positions were completely reversed, where the dominant became the subordinate, and the subordinate became the dominant, it would still run the same way. The subordinate would fight to become the dominant, and the dominant would attempt to preserve its position.

It may sound bad, but we have to strive to become more, or else there would be no progress. It just depends upon the way you act on it. I just feel like, if you want to have a superior position… Earn that position, and you will benefit others. Expecting to have it handed to you for doing nothing special means that you contribute nothing in return. So I would support affirmative action, only if the people benefitting from it actually worked for their position – such as going to college to earn a degree for the job that they are seeking, if other applicants have done the same.