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Originally Posted by slayda
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.
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Similarly, one of the smartest young ladies in my high school class went to Harvard on a full scholarship because she was a minority student -- a female with a Hispanic surname.
The minor detail that her family had been one of Alta California's leading families for hundreds of years -- indeed the city of Santa Monica in which our families lived had been built on a small part of her family's Hacienda! -- and were one of the wealthiest families in town apparently never entered into the question! We're talking seriously old money here, and lots of it!
We certainly do not start from the same starting line, nor are we all equally able. I hope that we manage equality before the law (although I fear this is often not achieved).
Xenophon