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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MaximallyAbstract_Faith: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by carambolas: [qb] The study's conclusions look shaky. Of coruse prejudice will account for SOME of thje wage gap. That is a given. Prejudice against fat women for example denies them higher paying jobs in certain corporate offices[/qb][/QUOTE]I didn't like the way it sounded either at first. And you forgot short people. Check out the statistics and studies on that (being biased against short people is something we never think about or think is silly but it's very real -- people think of them as having less integrety, less ability and more fiendish and it has a serious impact on careers). Statistics kind of add shocking reinforcement to our knowledge of just how biased people can be. Malcom Gladwell spoke of a study done on car dealerships where when they sent the Ivy League College grads out glaring disparities in the deals showed up based on race, that they couldn't get rid of no matter what they did (nothing they could think of could get the black clients a deal anywhere in the ball park of the white clients). That said talking about prejudice doesn't really offer a solution other than awareness. Even people like "Professor" have a point: [QUOTE]Egmond, When 70% of black children are born out of wedlock, when 12% of the population makes up 65 % of the prison inmates and blacks lead the nation in high school drop out rates how in the hell do you think they are going to be able to compete in the job market. Racism has nothing to do with it.[/QUOTE]Before too many forumers raise a brow I'd like to say that I'm aware that his post was lame for a number of reasons. It does however place the onus on black moral intelligence. Anti-black racism apart from reinforcing social dichotomies is basically a mechanism for projecting white guilt onto blacks. Guilt for savagery is absolved and converted into guilt on another group for being in that group. Guilt of course, psychologically calls for sacrifice of some sort, or sacrifice of another. Instead of playing their childish blame games that get no one no where we should dissolve the guilt all together. Guilt for being black manifests as blacks seeing themselves in a morally incompetent light, this is evidenced in frustrated anti-intellectual and delinquent behaviors. Trying to project guilt back on to what is seen as the "white perpetraiters" doesn't help people who have naturally through their time in America psychologically developed insubordinative dispositions (though this has constantly been pressured against), and second, is futile in the face of a simple question: "what are ya gonna [b]do[/b] about it?". Blame whites? It's insulting as it implies that *we* need *them* to help "us" do anything when "we" did the major helping in the first place. Instead of passing on this socially passed on psychological disease that seems to manifest as violence in just about every group of people that the white Christians met in violence, we've got to set a tone of pro-action: trust, cooperation, forgiveness, and progress, etc. The Jews have done it. Not to imply that non-whites have never had good moral code - back in the motherland many proud people had them, just not the guns. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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