Copy_Ninja

May 21 2017, 03:09 AM

I think his point really lacks nuance and with all due respect, it's a lot easier for someone like Morgan Freeman who has all of this success and fame to downplay the role race can play. I suppose when you're comparing things to how they were pre-civil rights movement, then you might be inclined to look at the way things lie and think "yeah we're over that now." To some extent it's true but there's still a lot to be done for you to say there's equality.

Income inequality is more inherently tied to class than anything else and does effect those of all races. When you grow up in that environment it's quite tough to pull yourself out. People do it of course and overcome that barrier, but I think it's unfair to blame people that can't do so and act like it's being used as an excuse as Morgan has implied here. Especially when the public school system in the US is under so much pressure and failing the kids its supposed to be helping.

On race more specifically though, a disproportionately high number of black people are in that lower class situation as a legacy of their treatment. It's not necessarily due to an oppressive system trying to keep them down right now but because of a system that used to do so and that's made it hard to pull people out. I think it's intellectually dishonest to ignore that factor as if it doesn't matter.