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The Great Divide

RW81233RW81233 Posts: 2,393
edited July 2011 in A Moving Train
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/2 ... 11362.html

Interesting article and video. "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like an Alp on the brains of the living...." (Marx)
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  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    interesting ... i wonder what that chart would look like if we substituted race and education levels ...
  • RW81233RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    I think that's what the video was about...how racism in the past has directly effected things like education, income, and so on in the present.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    RW81233 wrote:
    I think that's what the video was about...how racism in the past has directly effected things like education, income, and so on in the present.

    are they suggesting its perpetual tho? ... i'm not sure ... i do think there is a war on class in the US ... that isn't so much born from race but status now ...
  • RW81233RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    polaris_x wrote:
    RW81233 wrote:
    I think that's what the video was about...how racism in the past has directly effected things like education, income, and so on in the present.

    are they suggesting its perpetual tho? ... i'm not sure ... i do think there is a war on class in the US ... that isn't so much born from race but status now ...
    well here's the thing, if your parents couldn't buy a house in a nice neighborhood in the 40-60s, or couldn't get social security as returning vets from WWII, and so on then their offspring likely wasn't going to get into good schools, get good jobs, get a good house, and so on. So this certainly fucks minorities over for the next generation, then, just as the gap is getting closed, the government, from Reagan on, decides to regress economically thereby giving more wealth to people who had it (overwhelmingly white) and taking it away from those that didn't (overwhelmingly not-white). The war on class therefore is a new form of racism without being so overt about it.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    RW81233 wrote:
    well here's the thing, if your parents couldn't buy a house in a nice neighborhood in the 40-60s, or couldn't get social security as returning vets from WWII, and so on then their offspring likely wasn't going to get into good schools, get good jobs, get a good house, and so on. So this certainly fucks minorities over for the next generation, then, just as the gap is getting closed, the government, from Reagan on, decides to regress economically thereby giving more wealth to people who had it (overwhelmingly white) and taking it away from those that didn't (overwhelmingly not-white). The war on class therefore is a new form of racism without being so overt about it.

    that's a very good point ... :(
  • ParachuteParachute Posts: 409
    hahaha.

    A "racism"-trap. Not even gonna touch this one...
  • usamamasan1usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    yep.
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    you ladies arn't superized are you. :lol: this place reeks of people just waiting to stoke the racism fire.

    Godfather.
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