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Proto_Spark posted...

But the point is you can't jump over the hurdles because of racism. you aren't being handicapped by your own lack of skills, the system (ie. the guys who broke your legs) are stopping you from succeeding.

When some people start with their legs broken because of racist actions, the people who don't have broken legs are going to do much better at the track meet.

You need to isolate what is actually racist, because that lets you solve the problem. Track and field is not racist even if the people who broke your leg are, just like school isn't inherently racist, even if having lower income parents might be attributed to their race, which could make performing well in school harder. Calling everything and all institutions racist actually becomes counter productive at this point, because you can't fix literally everything and it's largely just not true.

The one thing I know is certain, is educated people are disproportionately more likely to succeed in life and school is the one thing that is free where working hard and smart gives you disproportionately high chance of success. It all goes downhill after school.

One of America's biggest problems is we undervalue education culturally (example, movies where kids normalize it as a joke and mock being smart or nerdy, America having such a high drop out rate when these kids are shooting themselves in the foot but don't see it that way), I don't think pushing that school systems and society as a whole is rigged against you is what you should teach aspiring young adults, especially when the ones most likely to take it to heart really should be staying in school the most.

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