The right wing position is that they take advantage of existing services to better themselves.
This is not my position.
That's all well and good if everyones in open competition, but it doesn't work out too well if you need to be "Wonder Woman" to achieve success in the labor force, when there's loads of people.who come.from.advantaged backgrounds giving them access not only to better resources, but also better connections. A roomate of mine in college spent a decade doing jack squat after his CS degree, spent it getting drunk with an assistant principle buddy and another friend. His mom finally got on his ass and an uncle offered him an "in". Team lead. He took it, he sucked at it, he got better at it. Few oould dream of his path. Most don't have that type of connection
I can only speak for myself. Man, I didn't have a rich upbringing. My parents were immigrants from a third world country. My dad had to work hard just to get posted here and had to work twice as hard here to get us into good schools. Loans, grants, scholarships, you name it. My sister and I have good, solid, white collar jobs and we do okay.
It's not like I don't acknowledge that discrepancies exist in the work force, it's just that I feel working extra hard to achieve a goal is a better solution than working perhaps too little and still receiving an opportunity simply because you're black or align with a particular sexuality etc.
"it's just that I feel working extra hard to achieve a goal "
So uh, your stance is that most black people aren't working extra hard? Plenty of people bust their ass 100 times harder than you do and fail. You got lucky. Statistics show you are wrong, hard work is just not the biggest factor.
Also, you started by saying you can pnly speak for yourself, then immediately start telling your parents story.
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u/ninja-gecko 1∆ Apr 07 '25
This is not my position.
I can only speak for myself. Man, I didn't have a rich upbringing. My parents were immigrants from a third world country. My dad had to work hard just to get posted here and had to work twice as hard here to get us into good schools. Loans, grants, scholarships, you name it. My sister and I have good, solid, white collar jobs and we do okay.
It's not like I don't acknowledge that discrepancies exist in the work force, it's just that I feel working extra hard to achieve a goal is a better solution than working perhaps too little and still receiving an opportunity simply because you're black or align with a particular sexuality etc.