Well, he's certainly tactless and doesn't really know what he's talking about, but he has something resembling a point.
What he means to say is that he's notcied the fact that "Americanized" people work fewer hours for more pay and expect more out of life. That's just a natural result of a higher standard of living, of course. Most Hispanic families that have been here for a generation or two are just as "lazy" as blacks and whites. I don't really understand what it is he intends to do about it, but.....whatever.
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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
I guess since the guy is black and a democrat he gets a pass though. We will never have racial equality in this nation until we hold everyone to the same standard.
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That's a negative, Hap. Even if everyone was held to the same standard, we'd still never have racial equality because different races are, in fact, different. The cultures they create are also different. Those cultures create sub-cultures that differ still further, and below it all is the overriding biological human need to form social groups that are distinguishable from others. If everyone on the planet were magically transformed into members of a perfectly homogenous race/culture structure overnight, they'd balkanize along any lines they could find and be at each others' throats within a generation, save where united by a common enemy (real or imagined). That's not just human nature, it's the nature of every gene in every organism on the planet. /disagreement
I think that what harms us most is not the obvious lack of equality, whether along lines of race or gender or creed or whatever, but the reckless pursuit of it. In calling attention to the situation of one group or another, you've just put them into an identifiable group, which is about as good as fashioning them into a target.
One of the reasons I'm such an ardent capitalist is because money treats all people equally. It doesn't care who you are or what you look like, it only demands an acceptable return. Money from nations around the world flocks to the shores of other countries, even some that are suspect or hostile. Workers in dirt-poor countries that have been stigmatized in just about every way possible (China) are given a chance at a better life and are earning one through their own efforts. That's about as equal as anything is ever going to get.