So do you agree with things like reparations, affirmative action, ect as a way of balancing things out after these kinds of injustices?
I agree in investments that are selected towards the worst off in our society.
In Texas for instance, schools are funded by local property taxes.
My friend works for a land insurance company researching deeds and I've seen these things that stopped blacks from owning land when my father was a young man.
So here I am in a state that says "the bigger your house and land, the more property tax you pay, the better your schools are" and can't help but draw a direct line from a 50 year old system of wealth accumulation and the cycle of poor education, bad jobs, more crime, more poverty, worse education...
Reparations don't look like cash to me. And affirmative action awarding extra point for diverse background is fine, meaning it becomes a tie breaker and not a quota system.
In medical school, our administration was very open about the implementation of affirmative action on our campus, showing before and after breakdown of our class. We were in majority hispanic region that our school served. After affirmative action the class makeup looked like the geography we were serving, with higher test scores on licensing exams. So that seems a good implementation.
Isnt this more of a "white benefit" than privilege? Also the richest median household income ethnicities arent all white, here's the top 5 (wiki)
Tell me the difference in your meaning? But I think its semantics.
By simply being white my father could own land in Texas in neighborhoods that blacks couldn't (that was his privilege for which I could have benefited) . White guy grows up with that direct link to an environment of lower crime, better schools, better socioeconomic connections, less likely to get arrested for the same drug use, more likely to get an interview due to white name, etc.
Asians break a ton of the talk here. They are selected against in things like affirmative action because their success and stereotypes
Most of this is a black/white issue in the structural sense if you want to talk education, jobs, class mobility.
Asians suffer in more subjective cultural ways or with "positive" stereotypes. Asian guys being seen as less masculine, small dicks, smart and hard working, false asian if you aren't those things, etc. But that's probably another topic.
Interesting, this disparity also occurs in medicine? Is it more in private practice than say the hospital system?
It does.
As above, regarding classes and affirmative action, and a slight different conversation, women are better students, do better than men at life sciences, and being a white or asian woman applying to med school is a "current disadvantage" because there are 832904820394823 of you down the hall waiting with the same story and life experiences.
But directly related to white and black in the medical setting, lets skip the obvious with shit insurance due to poverty.
There is good evidence that black patients are rated by nurses to be in less pain than white patients, and as such receive significantly less pain medications in the hospital. This has been studied well in ER and inpatient settings.
There's a million other stats, but I have forgotten most of them. The short is that in a ton of small, even unconscious ways, the medical system does not care for black patients with the same level of care as white patients.
