America is changing. Bigoted slurs, immigration bans and racist rallies can't change that

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  1. Guno

    Guno Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Looks like the poorly educated (trump's base) is sliding into oblivion in America, this is their last hurrah


    In the 1960s, landmark civil rights and immigration legislation began shifting the picture of who we are -- and what we can achieve. Before passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, only 3.5% of African-Americans older than 25 held a bachelor's degree; by 2015, that number had risen to 22.5%. Among Asians, the rate rose from 11% to 54% over the same period. And among Hispanic people, the rate rose from 8% in 1980 to 16% in 2015.
    Meantime, black business people owned 2.6 million firms across the US in 2012, a 35% increase from five years earlier; there were 1.9 million Asian-owned firms nationally in 2012, marking a 24% bump from 2007; and 3.3 million US firms were owned by Hispanics in 2012, up 46% in the prior five years. Over that same period, the overall number of US firms only grew 2%.
    Even so, white men still account for 72% of corporate leadership at the handful of Fortune 500 companies that share employee data.


    http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/changing-face-of-america-trnd/index.html
     
  2. Sanskrit

    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    1. What was the white bachelor's degree completion rate in the 50s and early 60s? Without that %, your first half-baked, racist insinuation is trashed.

    2. As far as business ownership, that's a great thing for all races and ethnicities, one of the things that makes the country great. However, once a group becomes more entrepreneurial and achieves greater and greater earned wealth, they display the desire to KEEP more of what they have earned, become more conservative as well in keystone issues like tax policy, and anti-government in cases of overregulation. Do tell us how these new black, Asian and Hispanic entrepreneurs will be "different" than white entrepreneurs of the past, in say the South for example, who become more sensitive to big government the more they earn? They won't.

    A nightmare for people like you will be when "diverse" private sector entrepreneurs supplant the grievance industry, identity politics con-men who are the current "leaders" in their various communities. Then your "phase out the hated white man" fantasy will evaporate. Not liking large, expensive government, and not wanting to pay for more of it than absolutely necessary is not and never has been some consequence of skin tone. :)

    3. White men account for more corporate leadership for the same reasons today they did 30 years ago. A HUGE portion of women drop out of work to have children, thus -ending- their running for the top top superstar corporate positions. Women do not work as hard as men in terms of hours and risk. Minorities are actively groomed for top positions, BEGGED to take on the levels of work that lead to the boardroom, yet they do not. GOOD FOR THEM. Corporate chieftainhood is seen by many with actual corporate experience as an undesirable end of a PATHOLOGY, a consequence of misplaced life values. It's not the best benchmark for the racism/sexism you think it is.
     
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  3. Chester_Murphy

    Chester_Murphy Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't get it. Are you saying all of the don's base is of the Caucasian race and they are against any other race being equal to them in opportunities?

    Oh, I see. You're Muslim and a recent immigrant. Okay, if true, that makes sense.
     
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    Channe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Trump is a necessary evil, at worst.
    At best, he is the savior of Western civilization.
     

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