Pah
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Mr_Spinkles said:
Let's leave aside your youth for the moment.
One only has to look at the power structure in politics and the corporate world to see where being white and male has it's most prevasive advantages. Heads of state and companies are overwhelmingly male - a woman has far less chance of acheiving that post in relation to the population pool. Blacks are not in positions of power commesurate with their percentage of the general population The "ol' boy network" is alive and well.and works to the disadvantge of blacks and women. Searches for candiates amongst women and blacks, in both spheres, is frequently viewed as "tokenism" when the "odd" minority is chosen.
The military favors males in the structure of the chain of command. Women can serve in the military but are largely kept on the periphery of combat. Women take the brunt of most cases of fratenization and adultery.
The church is another area where males predominate. Where women are "allowed" to become clergy, they infrequently ascending to the top of ladder in sectarian governence.
In the whole of the job matket and apart from minimum wage jobs, women are still paid less for the same amount and quality of work. Suits against this practice are still being filed against giants like Wal-Mart. The work place is crudely sexist in character in many places.
You could also look at the "profiling" security officials use. Being in the "wrong" neighborhood will generate different responses from passing police depending on your color and sex. You are far more likely to be stopped while driving a car if you are black. Airport security is based in part upon racial characteristics - a woman with a head scarf is suspicious.
In academia, the world of youth, primary education escapes some of the injustice but it is still prevelanct amongst the private acadamies. Students from the "wrong side of the tracks" are largely seen as tokens to diversity. Money is a basic requirement in admission and the poor are disproportionally black. State secondary education is largely responsive to the population but depends on acheivement from primary education. Black neighborhood schools still are inferior to the white, middle class sunburbia. and the students of these schools suffer from lack of elementary training. Poverty and education are vicious blocks to admission to the mainstream and can only produce a larger poor population. Education is the only way out - a "leveling of the field" so to speak.
There is a question of justice here. Are blacks to be relegated to the second tier of wealth because thier ancestors were forced into a secondary way of life by whites? When and where does that cycle end if not in secondary education? Are you personally disadvanteged? - perhaps. Is is a "payment" for the disadvantage imposed by our ancestors? - yes. I dare say that your great grandfather would not have been able to work his way through a secondary education if he had had dark skin ( it also sounds like so many of the stories of today's youth whose parents can not afford tuition - it is not uncommon). There is every likelyhood that you would be iin a lower level of middle class until some male in your lineage was able to get through college and better afford the opportunity available to you. (I realize I know nothing of your circumstances so take this as a generality if it doen't apply personally).
I also think that any disadvantage you suffer for education at a lesser known secondary school, disappears when it is time to secure your place in the job market. You will be judged on performance and acheivement and that will transfer to other , better compensated positions within and without your employ.
Your feelings of being a "bad guy" are reflective in the "evil" population. Until intergration began to take hold, many black heros (cowboys, civil war soldiers, black units in the World Wars, etc) were ignored. America was the white, two (predominently male) children, family (with the "homemaker" staying home) in movies and television. It is time for a little reality.
