What is the state of racial equality in our country? (USA)

IndianaJones

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Wed Jan-23-08 01:54 PM
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Poll question: What is the state of racial equality in our country? (USA)

Educational opportunity, economics, justice, etc.

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La Lioness Priyanka

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Wed Jan-23-08 01:56 PM
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1. massive inequality

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Rhiannon12866

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Wed Jan-23-08 02:01 PM
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2. I hate to admit it, but from what I've seen recently, prejudice still exists in this country...

Makes no sense to me, perhaps because I've always lived in the Northeast, but there are apparently people in this country who still haven't learned the lessons of Lincoln. :-( There are lots of reasons to like or not like somebody, but to base an opinion on skin color or ethnicity is both ignorant and senseless. :crazy:

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redqueen

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Wed Jan-23-08 02:02 PM
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3. Massive inequality.

I wonder how some miss it. It's not exactly hard to see, is it?

*sigh*

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gollygee

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Wed Jan-23-08 02:04 PM
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4. It feels to me like it's getting worse

When I was younger, I lived in a very diverse area, and now the area I live in isn't very diverse, so maybe I'm just around more bigots or something.

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Fresh_Start

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Wed Jan-23-08 02:06 PM
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5. massive issues many compounded by class issues

but because some minorities are also more likely to be poor, the effect is multiplied

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Virginia Dare

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Wed Jan-23-08 02:11 PM
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6. Somewhere between significant and massive..

and it largely depends on what area of the country you are in, and what race you're talking about.

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stillcool

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Wed Jan-23-08 02:50 PM
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7. How many stories like this...

never make it to a newspaper?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703120170mar12,1,1921178.story?coll=chi&ctrack=1&cset=true

In Texas, a white teenager burns down her family's home and receives probation. A black one shoves a hall monitor and gets 7 years in prison. The state NAACP calls it 'a signal to black folks.'

There was the 19-year-old white man, convicted last July of criminally negligent homicide for killing a 54-year-old black woman and her 3-year-old grandson with his truck, who was sentenced in Paris to probation and required to send an annual Christmas card to the victims' family.

And then there is the case that most troubles Cherry and leaders of the Texas NAACP, involving a 14-year-old black freshman, Shaquanda Cotton, who shoved a hall monitor at Paris High School in a dispute over entering the building before the school day had officially begun.

The youth had no prior arrest record, and the hall monitor--a 58-year-old teacher's aide--was not seriously injured. But Shaquanda was tried in March 2006 in the town's juvenile court, convicted of "assault on a public servant" and sentenced by Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville to prison for up to 7 years, until she turns 21.

Just three months earlier, Superville sentenced a 14-year-old white girl, convicted of arson for burning down her family's house, to probation.

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Rhiannon12866

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Wed Jan-23-08 04:17 PM
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10. Sad. :-( And then there was that infamous news story during Katrina,

where the black youths were "looters," while the white kids were getting needed supplies. ;(

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Blue_In_AK

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Wed Jan-23-08 03:05 PM
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8. It isn't equal

or we wouldn't even be talking about race in this campaign season.

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flashl

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Wed Jan-23-08 03:15 PM
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9. Massive ...

Weekly stories about healthcare disparities, unemployment, imprisonment, disappearing middleclass, etc.

No one mentions or acknowledges that America is de facto segregated.

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