The real problem in America today ...
The problem is that slavery wasn't the end. While horrific more than anything else, inequality continued, and still continues, for African-Americans today. I am a white, male American, and this is the thing that continues to **** me off. Even though racism and prejudice is virtually eliminated to the best it can, it now has nothing to do with the problem, and everyone (especially white Americans) seem to miss that.
First off, people have trivialized the whole non-sense into so many political debates that have nothing to do with the real plight and issue of African-Americans in the US today. In fact, people have turned it into the general "minority" non-sense, helping "minorities" that do not need to be helped. You see, virtually no race, other than African-Americans and Native-Americans, have been discriminated against en-masse since the very early 20th century. Back then, it was Irish-Americans and German-Americans. Not even first generation, US-soil born Americans are not disadvantaged in the least bit today.
Secondly, although women were discriminated against as late as '70s in white collar, and the '80s in blue collar, with reduced pay and unfavorable working conditions, the stastitics today show that women are now the majority positions of management and key leadership. Don't be surprised that within the next 20 years, women will outnumber men in exeuctive positions. The current precentage of Generation-X in their 30s and 40s poised to do so outstrip men. The main reason is that women were never denied education in the 20th Century, and only artificially limited in businesses until the last 20-30 years.
No other demography is financially disadvantaged except African-Americans. The reason for this is simple. Puporse, willful and state-sponsored access and denial of education as late as the 1960s! The root cause has always been that African-Americans -- unlike any other minority or women -- were systematically denied education. Because the bigots, racists and countless other people in those key positions in the US to do this knew that if you deny a people education, you not only set them back, but set back their off-spring for generations to come!
Hence why affirmative action, redistribution of wealth and countless other political gestures will never the problem at all. It's rather sad, but we can't address the problem for anyone but ********, or those willing to go back to school. Which is why I have, and I will continue to advocate, that any and all African-Americans who wish to go to college have it paid for free. This policy must be adopted, until the financial demographics of African-Americans are on-par with all other median US demographics. It is the only way to address the issue, for the benefit of all Americans.
