Axulus
Veteran Member
I know you did not just type that. Tell me did these white folk have their children sold from them, their wives raped, their husbands beaten? Or did they just not get the divine work opportunity of cleaning Miz Ann's floors and picking Mr. Charlie's cotton? FOR FREE!?What they mean is that racism hurt the nation as a whole. Granted, the white people still got all the opportunities, but those opportunities would have been a little better if there wasn't racism. Of course, some white people would have lost jobs to black people because they were less qualified, so it really is pretty ridiculous spin.
I'll take esoteric spin for $800 Alex.Except that racism makes everyone worse off, not better.Second, if the current social and economic status of the families of those white high school seniors was improved in part by institutional racism, then they are beneficiaries of it.
White high school seniors, on average, are now worse off because of past racism against Blacks.
And some whites lost farm and housekeeping jobs and other manual labor jobs due to slavery. They were made worse off as a result.Also, the number of opportunities isn't fixed. If there are a larger number of qualified people, job opportunities tend to expand (though wages may fall some). To the extent that wages would fall in certain industries, white customers of the products of those industries were made worse off with higher prices.
That you ignore the suffering of additional victims due to slavery simply because their suffering is much smaller in comparison does not take away the suffering. I don't know if you are also motivated to ignore it due to the color of their skin, but it doesn't make you look good. Also, do you seriously think Southern farmers wouldn't have to pay anything in the absence of slavery?
"How dare you complain that your son was a victim of severe bullying in school, my daughelter was raped and your son still has his male privlidge. "
You are doing the equivalent here.