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Originally Posted by nekokami
Using your metaphor, do you believe that in the US we all start at the same starting line at the same time? Or to what extent do you think this is true?
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Yes I agree that there are inequities but those inequities are generalized by the law according to statistics (which you like). I have been treated badly because I (a white male) am part of the "advantaged class" (even though I grew up in rural Mississippi the son of a poor country preacher). When in college there were aid programs that I could not apply for because of that. I knew a wealthy balck man who could and did because he was a member of the "disadvantaged class". My experience with statistics is one of the reasons I prefer to be considered an individual and why I "know" that there is not equality even when "well meaning" law makers try to acheive equality.
The point I was trying to make is that it is the starting line equality we should be striving toward rather than the finish line equality.
Again, just my opinion.