Why does it matter? Why divide people according to skin color? It's an arbitrary division.
I disagree with you here. If a statistic is a statistic, let it be.
But take note in how certain classes got there to begin with. Let's use blacks for an example.
We captured them from Africa taking them away from their family. We used weapons as force to make them do work for us (because they are lazy, not us, Right? lol), Eventually slave use was called out as inhuman. After that we kept the slaves we captured from getting education, hell, we even kept them from drinking from the same water fountains or using the same bathrooms. We didn't even let them swim in our swimming pools, yet today we wonder why blacks can't swim as well as whites.
We (whites) created this mess. Perhaps we should have just let the black slaves live in peace with their families? BOY WOULD THAT BE WEIRD AND A TOTALLY DIFFERENT OUTCOME!
I didn't take a single person and put them in slavery. I am not going to take responsibility for what others did hundreds of years before I was born. That's just absurd. I've done enough stupid things I need to be responsible for. I don't need the mistakes of others as well.
So because you never personally put someone into slavery, does that mean that you have no ability to understand what happened to the blacks that were put into slavery? You have no ability to look and see what the outcome was after having slaves for a couple hundred years, then following that up with Jim Crow laws.
In other words, you aren't smart enough to understand that the past actions of white Americans towards black Americans has caused MOST of the problems blacks face today.
Why didn't you just say so instead of claiming you weren't a slave holder. No shit. Me neither. But at least I am not blind to cause and effect.
Lets take a couple million white people, work em like slaves, no education, no medical care, no good food, split the families, kill the rebellious ones and lets do that to them for a couple hundred years. Then lets legalize discrimination and not let those former slaves eat, drink or even use the same bathroom as the rest of us. Let alone find good jobs.
I bet you claim that those couple million white slaves will just be so happy and productive and that the people that enslaved these whites were just trying to help.
And if those white former slaves are not happy and productive, well it sure isn't because they were slaves for a couple hundred years.
Everybody knows that being a slave wasn't so bad. What harm could come to former slaves?
That sound about right to you?