[Charles32249]

While I’m not for a moment suggesting that civil rights are a bad thing, the great ongoing struggle for racial equality over the past 40 years has served to mask the fact that America has *always* been class-discriminatory. When you get right down to it, the real moving force behind the rights movement was that black people and other minorities were ready to move off the lowest rungs of the economic ladder. So at this point America has spent a lot of time and effort – deservedly so – trying to overcome racial prejudice. Some of this thinking is applied very poorly by the white silver-spoon set, though, who now look at poor people of their own race thinking, ‘At least the minorities were oppressed – what’s your excuse?’ They forget that poverty can be caused by more factors than just racial prejudice or personal underachievement.

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Name : Charles32249, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 24, City : Albuquerque, State : NM, Country : United States, Occupation : Architect, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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