Economic Equilibrium is Unamerican

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Mitch Edelson

US History

5/20/10

Economic Equilibrium is Un-American

We should be happy that we live in a country where you can get a job based on your qualifications not your skin color. Even though this is true, there is a large rift between the resources of blacks and whites in this country. It is harder for blacks to get loans than whites. Blacks earn five times less income than whites. Some would suggest that we provide an advantage to blacks to help level the playing field. This policy is racist and is not the solution to the problem. Would you rather have a doctor who is hired because he is better a physician then the rest of the applicants, or would you rather have a doctor who was hired because of the color of his skin? This isn’t the solution to the problem. The problem isn’t racism its poverty. The problem of the wealth gap is not going to be solved by policies like affirmative action but rather changes in our economic and social structure. 

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There gap is frightening, our country needs to move past this relationship between race and wealth. The wealth gap divides us even more, not only are we divided by race but also by resources. Its easy to blame racism for this problem but it goes deeper. The problem is that when in poverty it is very hard to get out. So of course the wealth gap is growing because of the difficulty to rise above the poverty line and like the old saying says “the rich get richer”. 

Affirmative action is not the way to close the wealth gap; it would do much more harm than good. Affirmative ...

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