I agree. While there's some truth to the comments, they're loaded with generalizations and assumptions. While the message is to take the steps to get out of the ghetto, the assumption is that someone from the ghetto who was motivated to leave could actually accomplish it. The ghetto implies largely African American communities and possibly Latino in some cases. The thing the poster is somehow still missing, despite a couple of other threads that got into related topics, is the institutionalized racism built into American culture that is designed to keep African Americans poor and disenfranchised; other minority groups are basically the victims of collateral damage in this exchange between African Americans and Caucasian Americans; but, additionally, the collateral damage also spreads negative stereotypes about African Americans to these other minority groups. This built in institutionalized racism dates back to the founding of the United States, but was adjusted multiple times by the court system to get a form of racial discrimination legalized in response to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a very similar vein that the court system was used to legalize slavery in response to the Civil War and Reconstruction Era legislation; basically, slavery became legalized racism, in response to Reconstruction Era legislation, thanks to the courts, and racism became non-verbal, legalized passive discrimination in response to Title VII legislation. African Americans had about 5 years of success, thanks to Reconstruction Era legislation, until court action could quickly steal it away; African Americans than had about 15 years of success, until court action could steal away the employment strides African Americans began to make; as a result, ghettos began to form, African Americans realized that they would face near impenetrable resistance, and became content to live in the ghettos; however, there were those few who still tried to escape the ghetto, face the resistance, and got pushed back into the ghettos. Basically, the activities of African Americans to escape the ghetto was used by the court system as a mechanism to recalibrate institutionalized racism in employment to keep African Americans in the ghetto or limited to certain types of employment, which is the real reason that there are so few African Americans in certain fields such as science and technology. Meanwhile, certain people made it to the legislation that cede the legislator's role to kept a check and balance on judicial decisions, meaning that the Title VII laws were not continually updated in response to court decisions that interpret the civil rights legislation to narrowly limit the protections of the civil rights laws, until passive discrimination was legalized, keeping institutionalized discrimination in place as a barrier against escaping the ghettos.
The tug-a-war has been going on so long that several generations of African Americans have grown accustomed and content with the ghetto lifestyle; the long period of time has formed the cycle that keeps African Americans in ghettos. The length of time to contemplate unfair hopelessness than created resentment in the psyche of African Americans in the ghetto. The resentment than began to take the form that trying to escape the ghetto is acting white, and not cool, as African American don't want to be perceived as acting white. Thus, a large part of the African Americans became accustomed to the criminal lifestyle. African Americans than lost the understanding of Caucasian American warfare against them, leaving it possible for a few African Americans to get the idea that it's possible to escape the ghetto, provided you get your education; in getting your education, you learn to conform with the rules. These few African Americans than run into the calibrated institutionalized racism in certain fields and get knocked back into the ghetto, while a very few make it through in the certain fields that institutionalized racism has relegated African Americans; than African Americans appear to accurately conform with certain stereotypes about African Americans and their intellectual abilities to succeed in certain fields.
Thus, one solution is making drastic adjustments to Title VII to catch up with the courts; such needs to take the form of substantially limiting an employer's ability to hire people based on whimsical reasoning and doing away with most of the reasoning behind hiring someone considered the best qualified; hire people based on being qualified; this way, employers would have to overcome a hurdle to justify hiring someone other than the qualified African American, when the opportunity becomes applicable; one requirement to overcome this burden would require the employer to refrain from listing skills that are not essential for the position being posted (e.g. no more than about 5 skills per posting); another would be limiting the essential skills for the job to that posed by everyone who has the required degree for the position; another requirement would be to explain why a certain requirement(s) for the job that the African American does not share with the other applicant could not be overcome with a bit of on the job training. The legislation would than be related to properly interpreting the employees' burden to establish a case for employment discrimination (e.g. one important thing is to completely repudiate an employer's ability to defeat a case using false statements and information about the employee, making the court's analysis of a case much less mechanized, raising the barrier for employers to overcome in order to defeat the presumption of discrimination (e.g. this barrier is something different from what courts mean by reasonable doubt, preponderance of the evidence, etc., it's more of a technical barrier that adjusts with the facts of a specific case), including animosity as necessarily being apart of race or retaliation discrimination), overcoming summery judgment, pleading in the court, and addressing timeliness matters in filing an administrative claim and judicial lawsuit in such a way that reduces most of the current restrictions imposed by courts; this overhauling the civil rights legislation would have to include overhauling other employment related legislation, including the Civil Service Reform Act and Federal Court Improvement Act; the legislation would make interpreting an employee's burden of proof on appeal more specific and less arbitrary.
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