On the one hand, it is essential to find a cure for this small but terrible virus, which has brought the whole world to its knees. The response to the pandemic is therefore dual. And the virus, while it does not distinguish between people, has found, in its devastating path, great inequalities and discrimination. The pandemic has exposed the plight of the poor and the great inequality that reigns in the world. The preferential option for the poor and the virtue of charity People need to hold themselves more accountable for the problems in their lives.Īttitudes prevalent in neighborhoods without hope - including that getting good grades is "acting white," that "only a fool works for a living,” and taking from those “who got it" - are not easy to change.Catechesis “Healing the world”: 3. It was not about to lose any dues-paying members. Who could possibly be against this?” I was gobsmacked when the largest union in the country stepped up and kicked the door shut. The best thing about it was there was to be no preferential treatment because the students would come from all of the heartbreaking, poor neighborhoods of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, whites - any and all. One huge attempt at equity by the majority of the people happened a while back with school vouchers, which allowed kids from poor neighborhoods with poor-performing schools to attend high-performing schools to get their shot at a quality college education. Preferential treatment and equality cannot coexist. However, the collective minority help is still needed, not with outrageous demands but by offering up fair and reasonable solutions.Įquality is what we are after: Everyone should be treated equally however, no one should receive preferential treatment. The minorities could not have done it on their own. But, it has been the successive generations of the white majority which have brought about the needed changes to abolish or mitigate these atrocities. After all, discrimination, bigotry, and gender bias were all accepted and perpetrated by the white majority of the past. It is the responsibility of the majority to act against any and all types of inequity. Have we forgotten what our mothers taught us, that two wrongs don't make a right? They only make a third wrong. What? Through what fault of her own was she being punished? One of the panelists, a white male with a condescending smirk, said, "Well, that's the least she can do." One of many examples is in college admissions and the passing over of qualified white applicants for unqualified minority applicants.ĭuring a news broadcast, someone brought up a girl from a poor family who worked hard in high school to get great grades and to gain the knowledge to achieve high entrance test results - and who was passed over by the college of her choice. This includes being unjust to one segment of the population in order to help out the rest of the population.
People go to great lengths to complicate and confuse the issues to convince people that what they are proposing isn't wrong. It was wrong then and there, and it's wrong here and now. In the country of South Africa, during the time of apartheid (legalized discrimination, 1948-1994), the white minority ruled the country and openly discriminated against the indigenous majority. The Politically Correct Gestapo tells us to say "reverse discrimination" as a more appropriate term for this but it's discrimination all the same. Not even if the discrimination is directed toward the white majority. There is no right time to discriminate, there is no just reason to discriminate, and there is no cause that justifies discrimination.
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