It’s crazy right? I can hardly believe this is reality either. When the parents of many millennials were born- there were still LAWS in place- not even just social discrimination- actual LAWS-
that prevented Black Americans from having the same opportunities and advantages as whites- the same chances to establish and build wealth and opportunity to give their kids. We only need to go back a single generation to find people who’s lives were effected by institutionalized racism- and now it seems so unreal that people are making efforts to help grow wealth in communities who were denied that chance. How surreal and amazing it is.
It’s unreal, when you consider that for 6 generations laws and social discrimination held back these communities, that slavery ended but share cropping and peonage took its place and peonage was still going on in the 1960’s! How dreamlike it is to see that corporations of all places- even if just for “PR,” are taking a stand to say equality isn’t where we treat everyone the same- it’s when we make sure everyone has as level a playing field as possible. It’s certainly “equal” to play tug of war with 10,000 lbs worth of people on your side and 10,000 lbs worth of caterpillar bull dozer on mine- or for you to have a team of 20 runway models and me a team of 20 Olympic power lifters. Those numbers are the same, rules are the same. Not really equal though in odds to win is it?
that prevented Black Americans from having the same opportunities and advantages as whites- the same chances to establish and build wealth and opportunity to give their kids. We only need to go back a single generation to find people who’s lives were effected by institutionalized racism- and now it seems so unreal that people are making efforts to help grow wealth in communities who were denied that chance. How surreal and amazing it is.