big_mal, I can see some of your points, except that not all whites owned slaves in their ancestary, so the argument that somehow whites got a "head start" over blacks isn't true. But I think many blacks perceive it that way, so they use it as an excuse or crutch, instead of trying to better themselves.
I would disagree. It is not like it was zillions of years ago - legal equality has only existed for what 40 years in the US? After 300+ years of crap thrown at them?And that is legal equality, not actual equality. How a nation expects to treat a group of people like animals, enslave them, deny them equal rights - then expect them to be on the same footing as a group that has a more genial history I will never know. The same way women are not as successful in general as males.
In nations that never had slavery and lack of equality, the races are basically equal as well as solid race relations. Well actually the 'race relation' stuff is like not even happening because race is such an non-entity. Why would blacks and native americans be operating on the same level as whites in some nations and not others? Due to the history.......
Just a perspective from someone who lives in a nation that does not have the horrible history that many others do. My country was actually founded by people escaping slavery. Mostly native americans actually. Slavery or the Jim Crow things never applied here. Hence, we don't have the problems of minorities being disadvantaged and so mostly people are equal. Nice.
