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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (32016)10/11/2001 6:26:50 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
Standardized tests are especially biased.

Do you thing they are created to be racially biased or do you think that they just have differing results because the lower average social and economic status of minorities puts them at a disadvantage, or do you think there is some other significant factor that produces the disparity in results?

"Do you believe that Colin Powell could never become president, owing entirely to a racially biased electorate?" I don't know. Can you explain 200 years of absolutely no people of any color other than white occupying the Pres and Veep slots?

I think a big chunk of that 200 years is due to racism. For much of that time few people would have even seriously entertained the idea of a black president. However this is no longer true. Colin Powell probably could have become president had he gone for it, and ran a good campaign. This is not to say that no racism still exists but the majority of people would atleast consider voting for a black candidate. We might be at the point where it would take a strong black candidate to beat out an average white candidate, but the amount of people who would never vote for a black person might not be much above the amount of people who would vote for a candidate just because he is black.

To be really fair there ought to be at least 100 years of blatant reverse discrimination.

That would not be fair at all. The people who suffered discrimination 100 or 200 years ago are not still alive. Giving benefits to those who didn't suffer the harm (or suffered far less) and the expense of those who didn't create the injury would not be fair. What would be fair is ending unjust racial discrimination and prejudice but it might never go away completely and even making a significant dent in what is left of it doesn't happen over night. I think if you look at things over the long run you can see that almost every decade in the 20th century things got better then they where the decade before, or atleast every decade since WWII.

Tim
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