RobsPics wrote:Col Hogan wrote:
And cannot be wiped out by legislative edict...
But racism has been wiped out by legislative edict...not 100% though, just in areas where the government has jurisdiction over peoples' actions.
Rob...
...so young and naive.
I'm not condoning racism, but I can GUARANTEE that racism is alive and well, even in matters in which "the government's" hand guides the process.
I've worked with companies executing, or participated in contracts, administered by Fed, State and Local governments, and despite all the set asides and regulations imposed to ensure benefits to minorities, I repeatedly witness incidents wherein discrimination effects decisions made by everyone from the line supervisors and project managers all the way up to the bank management charged with overseeing funding.
Racism has been EXACERBATED by the incessant media and governmental efforts to identify racial/cultural differences.
In many of the cases I've witnessed, the motivation for discrimination arose from prior incidents of reverse discrimination imposed upon the offender: Educational, contractual (business) opportunities LOST merely because the offender was not a minority. Those incidents are frequent everytime the government becomes involved. The offender then rationalizes their actions as a means of "leveling the playing field".
This is VERY real in America today, and for the foreseeable future, so long as the government continues to impose laws and regulatory control which enforce reverse discrimination.
And, BTW, the vast majority of racial discrimination is not manifested in "violent" or "assaultive" action, but through selection, hiring and job (opportunity) assignment.
Now, that I've got your blood pressure up...
...the other shoe drops.
I've witnessed an equal percentage of discrimatory "penetration" by minority decisionmakers, who allow race to influence their decisions: This is not a "whites versus XXXXX" equation. The door of discrimination swings both ways.
I must say than I'm rather shocked that any thinking person would have the temerity to profess that "racism is fixed where government is involved in the process"...
...with the increasing influence of special interests and political demographic "gerrymandering" on legislative and regulatory decisions over the past century, the cases where "government works better" than private sector have become increasingly RARE: Statements to the contrary, IMHO, are the beliefs of wishful theoretical academicians, or fools, rather than the experienced pragmatist.
