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Racial Inequality vs. Class Inequality
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While I'm not confident enough to call it the root of racial inequality, class inequality is the main barrier to progress in that area today. Class division is the hovering issue above all minority groups, not simply racial. LGBT groups being the first that comes to mind. It's also the hovering issue for anyone not grossly wealthy, the latter of whom use this issue to their own advantage. In effect, everyone is touched upon by class inequality. So on that basis alone, I'd call class inequality the 'bigger' issue by virtue of it being the overarching problem for most inequality around the world. It's the default problem under capitalism, not rooted in America alone.
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Racial inequality is only an issue with racist people or should I say "extremists". Minorities get the same benefits and everything as everyone else. They all get free pell grants (if they're in a certain class financially) as the whites, they get government assistance the same as everyone else (financially), they can all potentially get a job regardless of race, tho criminal history and experience comes into play, etc. Yes, blacks may be at the bottom of the spectrum when it comes to class financially but I can't think of a viable solution to the problem other than dedication on their end and wanting to succeed. Now I'm not calling every black person out because there's some successful blacks that feel the same but at the same time there's others that abuse the system and turn to crime rather than getting out of a bad situation or a bad living state. Also, all races come into play on this. There's bad apples for all of them.
Class inequality is a bigger issue imo because not only are minorities effected but everyone in the middle class and lower class is. Say if taxes were to take a leap, the middle class would get the biggest impact and depending on their annual makings they could end up borderline poor or poor making the poorer (ones on welfare) richer than them which is wrong. The ones in the poor grid wouldn't see a big difference because they're already poor and most likely using government assistance to help them anyways, which in the end would benefit them a little more but not enough for a drastic change.
Rich people get taxed just like everyone else. The more you make the more they take so technically they're getting taxed more than what poor and even some middle class people make yearly. They just have bigger bills because who wouldn't pay for a luxury vehicle, buy a boat, buy a bigger house, etc if they weren't rich? So taxing the rich more isn't a viable solution.
Bernie says no one working should live in poverty... Maybe if you stopped taking a chunk of the working mans money and giving it to those that refuse to work then they'd have more. Yes, some people NEED government assistance. Like myself, I have food stamps but that's it. I put my pride aside and don't ask for handouts like other people. I just have food stamps because it's literally insane how pricey it is to live here for what they pay and food is needed to live. Those living in poverty and working are literally slaves to the system since those politicians take some of that money to line their pockets.
Class inequality is a bigger issue imo because not only are minorities effected but everyone in the middle class and lower class is. Say if taxes were to take a leap, the middle class would get the biggest impact and depending on their annual makings they could end up borderline poor or poor making the poorer (ones on welfare) richer than them which is wrong. The ones in the poor grid wouldn't see a big difference because they're already poor and most likely using government assistance to help them anyways, which in the end would benefit them a little more but not enough for a drastic change.
Rich people get taxed just like everyone else. The more you make the more they take so technically they're getting taxed more than what poor and even some middle class people make yearly. They just have bigger bills because who wouldn't pay for a luxury vehicle, buy a boat, buy a bigger house, etc if they weren't rich? So taxing the rich more isn't a viable solution.
Bernie says no one working should live in poverty... Maybe if you stopped taking a chunk of the working mans money and giving it to those that refuse to work then they'd have more. Yes, some people NEED government assistance. Like myself, I have food stamps but that's it. I put my pride aside and don't ask for handouts like other people. I just have food stamps because it's literally insane how pricey it is to live here for what they pay and food is needed to live. Those living in poverty and working are literally slaves to the system since those politicians take some of that money to line their pockets.
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They're both problems, but if you look at how things are now compared to where they were 50 years ago, 100 years, 150, I think it's clear that the way people look at race and the inequalities surrounding race are improving more than the inequality surrounding money and class. All the fixes and safeguards and attempts to keep a stable economy, make sure there are jobs, make sure there are services for people without means, have been oscillating back and forth since the Great Depression. We don't seem to learn from our economic mistakes. We're backtracking right now, making it harder for people at the bottom.