We may disagree on politics, but we do agree on closing this thread. It serves no useful purpose.
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I thought this thread was a great example of our society on a whole.
It started with politics and quickly became a thread about race.
My second Master's(first was Economics. Go Rams!) is in Sociology.
The bottom line is 'pecking order'. For one group of people to move up in a culture/society another has to move down.
Until we achieve economic parity(unrealistic in my opinion), race will always be used to separate the haves from the have-nots.
I remember my first trip for Morgan Stanley to West Virginia for a conference on Pension legislation.
Being born and growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side blinds you to some economic realities of our country.
As economically disadvantaged as some of the locals were, they wholeheartedly believed the following:
"I might be poor, uneducated even, but at least I'm white."
Now this was quite possibly the most illogical thing I'd ever heard. I thought to myself that poverty knows no color, sexual orientation, religion. etc...
THAT was the 24 year old me right out of grad school preaching the virtues of capitalism and free markets.
17 years later, I still preach the virtues of capitalism and free markets, but the Sociology studies have taught me that mankind, as a species, doesn't actually strive for parity. Yet.
Maybe we'll evolve a bit more and get closer, but right now everyone is just trying to maintain their spot in the pecking order hierarchy.