2007-03-01 09:36:05 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I think to some degree they are oppressed by certain areas of society. It's proven to be harder for a black man to hail a cab than a white man. More than anything though, I think some black people are oppressed by their own misplaced anger and sense of entitlement. I say some, not all. America is the land of opportunity after all and thankfully there are people of all sizes, ages and races to testify to that fact.
2007-03-01 09:43:18 · answer #1 · answered by mufflerbearings1967 3 · 8⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe that everyone in America has the same opportunities. I don't think it based on color or anything more than money. A wealth black family would be able to provide a better future than a poor white family. I actually see the oppression being reversed. Employers, Colleges, and the like are scared to be labeled as racist and will accept a black person with minimal qualifications over a white person with medium qualifications. I think that a general lack of self esteem exists in a "ghetto" that keeps the people who live there from raising out of the situation. If you teach your child that you are being held down by the man, then you child will grow up believing that to be true. So yes I do think that many black people are oppressed, and it does have a lot to do with how we white people treated them in the "old days".same reasons that kept them down for years is keeping them down now only because they pass the thinking from generation to generation.
2007-03-01 18:00:14 · answer #2 · answered by Mike E 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The human race is opressed.
2007-03-02 15:22:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is 2007, are you OUT OF YOUR F U C K I N G mind?
Who ever thought they can oppress a Black person would get a bullet on their brain. Along with a race card justice that will give the Black person always the right of way.
2007-03-02 04:41:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Only in their mind, there is a huge difference between having equal opportunities and working towards a goal, and sitting at home blaming others for your lack of prosperity. There is all the difference in the world between treating people equal and attempting to make them equal.
2007-03-01 19:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by STFU 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In some ways, of course. We'll never be treated completely equally. I find it oddly amusing that this thought could ever cross anyone's feeble mind.
2007-03-01 17:55:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nope. And those of us who say we are need to take a trip back in time to see what true oppression is.
2007-03-01 18:17:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not enough that white people still need to feel guilty. Listening to black people, you'd still think they could get lynched for whistling at women or something, or that some people secretly still keep black slaves in their backyeards. *rolls eyes*
2007-03-01 17:54:18 · answer #8 · answered by Prideful 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Yes... If you have to ask that question, you're out of touch with reality.
2007-03-03 07:37:39 · answer #9 · answered by lil_snipe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all, some of the richest people in the US are black and are doing better than many of us so I would say they are not opressed at all. Every race has their share of opression
2007-03-01 17:39:42 · answer #10 · answered by Urchin 6 · 2⤊ 8⤋