what exactly do black people mean by''we want equality''?

Question

sounds to me like they want every job possible,every scolership,they want to say anything they want,but u cant say it back.is it possible the reason the black person didnt get hired was because the person whocdid was more qualified,or that the kid who got the scolership had a higher sat score and better grades,or is it the little invisible white man in every corner who changes grades,and job application info just so the black person didnt get hired.after all if the black person didnt get the job,or scolership it is cleary racist.and doest the double standard in this country actually make blacks look inferior.think about it,if they can say things whites cant,or they will be punished,doesnt that make the reason seem bacause they are not equall?

Answer 1

ANYBODY who wants equality should also consider that they may equally fail at their endeavors as well as equally succeed.

Maybe a black person got the job because they were more qualified than you... and not because they were black.

It all goes both ways, and we all need to live together.

Answer 2

Wish2Travel: I realize that you are looking at individual behavior in terms of getting arrested and being on welfare, however there are systemic institutional biases that place minorities in the oppressive state they are in. Many people in our country have the belief that if you try hard enough, you can succeed no matter what (the pull yourself up by the boot straps mentality). Unfortunately that just is not a reality for the majority of minorities. There are certain laws and institutional rules that prevent people from doing so.

There is racial profiling, property zoning laws, schools receiving money based on the taxation and wealth of their area. What is extremely upsetting to me is that schools in poor areas in our country are not being helped. There are schools in urban neighborhoods in the south that actually hold classes in the bathrooms because of funding issues. This is not okay. There are so many more issues that all contribute to things like a high percentage of African American males in prisons, people working two or three jobs yet they still can’t support their families, lack of education due to the improper funding in our society contributes to less success financially.

It is completely unfair to say that minority people expect a hand out. In a capitalistic society if we want to have wealthy people, we HAVE to have the working poor and unemployed.

Answer 3

It's contradictory, as with many political issues.

Some mean they want a true end to all racial differentiation, which includes both an end to subtle racial prejudices that result in racial inequality, and an end to programs such affirmative action. This sub-set feels that the only way to achieve true equality is when NOTHING is dependent on race, for good or bad.

Unfortunately, as you point out, many do not take that internally consistent view. They want benefits to balance against past prejudice, but also an end to current prejudice. They cannot seem to grasp (what the first group has) that as long as any distinctions exist based on race, even beneficial ones (for them) then there will not be true equality.

So, as with any large group and any complex issue, there are different perspectives and different meanings.

Answer 4

I am not black so I can't say what A black person means..
Much of what you talked about are things white society has created to ease their guilt conscience, what I do know that if white America was treated like black America, we would be asking for more..to give an example, how many times has a
Brit or french person posted something we disagree with..
our answer to them by a great many is "remember WW2 "

Answer 5

Last rant I heard none of us want to work and we couldn't read and NEVER went to school. Now you are saying we want every job and scholarship. Which one is it?

There are studies that indicate a person with an ethnically black name on a job application will get called less than half the times as someone with a name like Joe Smith.

Ok, so you would feel better if blacks wouldn't be offended by you calling them the same thing that racists over the last 250 years have called them as an insult? That would really make you feel better? That's your basis? That you can't call me a racial slur? We are so destroying your Civil Liberties!!!

Answer 6

.Some people who answered here seem to suggest that it is only white people who discriminate on the basis of race.
However, anyone who has lived or worked in a black neighborhood knows that this is far from the truth.
I have seldom heard black people refer to Orientals by any label other than "that slant-eyed M.F.".----White people are almost always called "Honkies"," Pecker-woods", or "white boys", ---Hispanics are called "bean eatin' M.F.s, or "wet backs".
I have found much more racism in black communities, and many treat their own children worse than most white people have treated them.---Thousands of black men desert their families every year.
Furthermore, fair minded people don't expect children to pay for the crimes or sins of their fathers. Most white people didn't have ancestors who were slave owners.--Only a handful of people could afford slaves, and most of the ancestors arrived after slavery was abolished, and had nothing to do with slavery>---Why should a white person, who recently arrived from Europe, owe anything at all to black people.
Do we also owe something to the descendants of those who were burned as witches?----Should we give the land back to the Indians?---Should black people return their homes to the Red people?---Do we owe anything to the people who descended from white slaves? How about the Chinese who built the railroads?,---or the whites who died fighting slavery?

Answer 7

They want more than equality in my opinion. MLK Jr was for equality. But not many blacks care about him. They're all about Malcolm X. Why?? Because he was a racist and an extremist.

And it is America in the year 2007. The ones that are whining should just shut up, get an education and take those opportunities that everyone else has. Quit waiting for everything to be handed to you because your ancestors could have been slaves 300 years ago.

Answer 8

My fifteen year old step daughter types like you do. I once typed like that as well. I stopped and started to reread everything that I wrote. I noticed a lot of errors and saw how other would read it. I saw how it did not flow or that it was just one big mess. I started to use periods more and Caps when I needed to. I am not saying or making fun of your question, because I had to face that crowd.

I myself had to stop and try to reread to see your point. The most part, it seems liked a rant because you have summoned up every black person in this country.

I know this driver, Tim Buttyan and he is white while his wife is black. I really enjoy hearing his stories about how his wife just lets into the black people around her.

To answer you question would require that you step out of your world and into their world. A long time ago I use to say and talk about how tired I was at seeing people use the welfare system. I did not understand it completly and thus more less ranted about how my taxes dollars are being wasted on somebody that could do for themselves, but they don't.

It was not until I was 30 years of age when GOD showed me something. Humility..... thou I will seek to help people out of the system. I myself will never seek to remove it because it helps. Thou you have bad apples in everything we do in this world. You should still seek out the good because to many people seek out the bad in this world.

Answer 9

Then you're not listening very well. First of all, not all blacks support affirmative action. Secondly, is it any more paranoid for you to say a black person got the scholarship because of his minority status than it would be for a black to say a white kid got it because of bigotry? And finally, the country is still recovering from many of the injustices done to blacks in previous generations--injustices a lot greater than not getting a scholarship or having to wait a little longer than a promotion, so we've got a way to go before there's full equality. That said, we're a hell of a lot closer, and thank goodness.

Answer 10

Well if they want equality,then congratulations because they have it. The problem in America is not that Black people don't have equality,it's that many of them refuse to use it.

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