hmm ok so i think i made a pretty damn good point here about creating role models that kids can see themselves in and yet no one responded. so i'm quoting myself and commenting on it, i can do that cause i rock.
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Originally posted by brianna
programs like affirmative action are ment to encourage minorities into all walks of life. if we cultivate a society where all people in power are white we create the false impression that minorities are not capable of doing such jobs, this impression is likely not only to encourage racist beliefs but also discourages minority children from striving for excellence. The later is especially true when a child grows up in an all minority community with no role models in powerful or successful positions. Children like to identify with their heros, ideally racism would not exist and a child could easily overlook skin color when searching for similarities between him/herself and a role model, unfortunately, in our society it is often difficult to do this and children get the impression that white guys get to be presidents and mexican guys get to work the farms. psychologically white children (and psecifically white male children) are at an advantage because they can more easily see their heros as grown up version of themselves, until we have all races and both genders represented equally in out society true equality cannot be reached.
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wow brianna, that's very inciteful, great point!