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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
People aren't going to give up anything tangible unless they are forced to do so or unless it benefits them in some way. 95% of people are interested only in taking care of their families and personal well-being (whether they admit that or not). I can't even really fault that attitude because in it's not in a human's DNA to give a damn about, for example, whether black people have a fair fight in life. Most people just don't care and aren't wired to care. What they care about is feeding and housing their families - the same thing humans and most other animals have cared about since the beginning of time. I wish we weren't wired that way - but we are. I wish this board represented the mindset of the country, but in reality most Americans (and most people) collectively aren't particularly interested in the well-being of non-family/non-friends. I guess my point is that you're right: it's going to take generations for the field to level. It will happen, but it's going to take a while.
As you can see, I don't have a lot of faith in humans to ever do the right thing. At least in the short term.
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I see a lot changing. My kids, for instance, don't even identify the race of people they are describing. My daughter had a black roommate in college and I didn't know the girl's race until we went down for her graduation. My son's date to a HS dance was black. Again, I had no idea until I opened the front door one day and she was standing there.
Even the kids of a few people I know that are definitely racist and not particularly circumspect about it tend to be more color-blind. I think that color-blindness will lead us to a more level playing field.
As a hardcore 5%er, I think our ranks are gathering.
