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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
John Stossel :: Townhall.com Columnist
White guilt doesn't help blacks
by John Stossel
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"White privilege is a disingenuous idea," he says. In fact, now "there is "minority privilege."

"If I'm a black high school student today, there are white American institutions, universities, hovering over me to offer me opportunities. Almost every institution has a diversity committee. Every country club now has a diversity committee. I've been asked to join so many clubs, I can't tell you. There is a hunger in this society to do right racially, to not be racist. ... And I feel rather privileged by it. I don't have to even look for opportunities, in many cases, they come right to me," he adds.

But there is still racism in America. At ABC News I've aired hidden-camera video that showed salesclerks spying on black customers, cab drivers passing blacks to pick up whites, landlords lying to blacks about vacancies, and employers favoring white-sounding names. So don't whites owe blacks compensation for that and for past injustices?

Steele answers, "You owe us a fair society. There's not much you can do beyond that. There isn't anything you can do to lift my life up. I have to do that."

"The fact is," he adds, "we got a raw deal in America. We got a much better deal now. But we can't access it unless we take ... responsibility for getting there ourselves."

He makes good points. White privilege exists, but it's not the whole story.

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And another thing
A prevalent trend among blacks, is the lack of unmarried parents.If a couple stays together happily, much more stable offspring are prevalent.The large percentage of single parent families is one of the biggest problems with AMERICA today,in my opinion.If every child was raised in stable happy homes,with parents who love each other and their children, putting needs ahead of wants, the children grow up learning the importance and ease (over time)of putting needs ahead of wants and doing for others because you love them, I think AMERICA JUST MIGHT POSSIBLY BENEFIT!

double standards and welfare separates
A big problem with AMERICA, if not the world, is the doggone double standards the liberals nag us into tolerating.
Unfortunately, in the world today, the most successful segment of society cannot say or do any little thing, any part of a less successful segment might possibly consider the least bit disrespectful to anyone they have ever heard of. At the same time, the less successful segments can say anything they want about the most successful segment.This creates a double standard that can be used to a considerable advantage by someone with low morals. The most important trait a person can have is , in my opinion, self respect. A person with self respect will not be shaken by anything anyone says about them, unless they are running for office. It is detrimental to a person's self respect to give them unnecessary aid to live their life. On the other hand, a little direction can enable someone to do something they never thought they would be able to do, which could give them such a boost in confidence that nearly anything becomes possible. Giving them a free ride, however, promotes lack of ambition, a sense of entitlement, and a lack of self respect, which can lead to resentment and even hate for the very hand that 'helps' them. Often a person like this will be offended every time the wind changes direction. An easily offended person often considers themselves inferior to the person who offends them. A person with self respect will tend to avoid them to keep from offending them, thus leading to segregation. Many people, who are less successful, in their opinion, than others, are resentful of people whom they consider to be better off than they are. But, often they don't intend to put forth the effort necessary to legally become the people they are so envious of. This is usually why someone, who actually has the same opportunity for success as anyone else, falls behind. While it is true that some people get a head start on others, this is usually due to effort a relative exerted, over and above the effort of relatives of the less fortunate. A person's success is almost always do to greater effort than the less successful's. This can be compounded when, generation after generation, less successful people rationalize their position in life by criticizing people they are envious of. Often, they will exaggerate, present rumor or conclusion as fact, or if necessary, lie through their teeth in order to make it ok, in their twisted mind, to not even try, legally, to bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Some are so far behind ,due to generations of this mind set and the resulting lack of effort, that it will take generations to catch up. They use the seemingly unbearable time and effort as an excuse not to even try. Instead , they criticize the people they envy in an attempt to rationalize their perceived inferiority and misery. This leads to being so resentful of people they actually look up to, they are so easily offended it is hard to talk to them at all, thus the futility of negotiating with people who are so resentful of others, they want to kill the people they actually feel so inferior to, they have become irrational, often irreversibly. This also explains the low-down, sleazy, cheesy, unconscionable, dirty tricks pulled by the Democrats, election after election. While, at the same time, they hold the REAL AMERICANS (Republicans) to extra high standards they themselves are incapable of obtaining.
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