'Favors' to Blacks

It really is disheartening. I've been called a bigot in some form more in the last 10 years than my entire 33 years on this Earth. I get called sexist because I disagree with the notion that the only way men and women are equal in the workplace is if half of the Fortune 500 CEOs get fired and replaced with women. We've got women in the highest positions of the Country including the Supreme Court which is a lifetime appointment. I get called racist because I disagree with the notion that the only way blacks and whites will be equal is if we have just as many black Presidents as we do white Presidents. I don't have 150 years to wait for us to officially be equals. Equal opportunity does not translate into equal results. It is not a patriarchal oppression that more men aspire to be auto mechanics than women. It is not white oppression that our jobs aren't 50/50 split. That's simply population numbers.

It really is sad that we can't rise above this. Open up any history book and you'll see all our ancestors experienced genuine oppression. Whether it was oppression from tyrannical dictators. Oppression from abusive slave owners. Oppression from a time when women were regarded as property. All of our ancestors have experienced it in some form and all of them have risen past it. So why is it that in this great Country, there are so many who think they are still affected by the sins of the past. Especially considering slavery is still going on in other countries. Especially when women are still regarded as property in other countries. Especially when there are still tyrannical dictators enforcing their will on others through fear and violence. These are things that are actually happening right now around the world... but I can say for certain they are definitely not happening in this great Country.

It's easy to remember when the opportunity scales were unbalanced. It's even easier to believe they still are or are not today. It's easy to call names with little or no proof. It's easier to call names to "win" an argument. It's easy to list "common sense" answers. It's easier to take credit or cast blame for those same answers. Solutions are harder. Solutions are recognizing that balancing the scales is a constant work in progress. Solutions are recognizing that not all beliefs are a reflection of an -ism, but just a different point of view to be added to the account. Solutions are recognizing that you will probably never be remembered for solving the problem and accepting that as the price of the problem solved. Solutions are about defining the problem, not defining the people.

There are groups that holler about slavery and oppression, they don't even admit that there were others used for slavery and oppressed just as badly or worse than they are and were! I got called racist for bringing up that there were other slaves....then that person looked it up and still said that blacks should get paid reparations....umm ok MY ancestors were murdered and kidnapped then forced to work manual labor long before black slaves were introduced, and yet you do not see the Native Americans fighting for reparations or rioting, you don't see the Irish doing these things....how about the Asians? or the many other groups used as slaves. There are groups of whites and other groups that are still treated badly, but you don't see any of these groups looting, burning things down, and beating on people due to skin color!