The End Of Men

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Rupert -- the idea is not to say that there is no chance for minorities to be successful, or to deny the fact that we have come a long way.

But to deny the fact that there are still a boatload of inherent advantages in being born a white male is simply ridiculous. Just because we've got a black president and Tiger Woods got famous doesn't mean it's all of the sudden a level playing field and by and large across society minorities are not still underprivileged and disavantaged, and that the advantages white men are born with have somehow disappeared.

It's a more level playing field than it once was, but it's a hilariously privileged assertion (always made, unsurprisingly, by white men themselves. Go figure) that somehow being a white man just ain't what it used to be and that's it's actually a disadvantage of some kind.

I'll bet that if you did a poll today amongst minorities that are in their 20s and 30s that went to good schools and that are successful, I'll bet that a high percentage of them (maybe 50%) would tell you that being a minority did not hurt them.

Minorities are excelling in all areas.

If you lined up 10 six-year old kids of all races in front of me and asked me to predict which ones would be the most successful, I would make my predictions based mainly on what kind of familes these kids came from. If you had a black kid from a middle-class family with good parents, I think he would have a better chance of being successful than a white kid who lived in a trailer park whose parents were drug addicits. If you have a black kid whose dad is a 22 year old gang member vs an Asian kid whose dad is a doctor, I think there is a better chance that the Asian kid would be successful.

I think that race would play a very minor role. Do you think race is more important than what type of parents a kid has?