Social Mobility and Race

[julie*mango]

Does one's race determine one's status in society? Does being black impede one's ability to move up from a lower social class to a higher one? Discuss.

[Tuff Gong]

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The Social Darwinism experts will have a field day with this one I am sure they ready to do battle right now!

[rufian]

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YES

Whats to discuss? Is the same wheel

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Does one's race determine one's status in society? <span style="font-weight: bold">Does being black impede one's ability to move up from a lower social class to a higher one?</span> Discuss. </div></div>

i have a real problem when people throw out general phrases like that; 'being black' does not hurt or help anything in and of itself---it depends on the context one 'being black' finds themselves in...
i see this as mental slavery when blacks do this 'cause i'm black' thing...
sometimes if you look for the impediment hard enough you will find it; even embrace it...
so it's not a matter of 'being black' determining your status or class; it's a matter of how the men in that society have shaped it in terms of how humans relate to each other...
i think it's full time some blacks leave behind that woe-is-me-i'm-black slave mentality;
it's the 21st century- new challenges lay ahead...slavery &amp; jim crow time done

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Does one's race determine one's status in society? Does being black impede one's ability to move up from a lower social class to a higher one? Discuss. </div></div> well first define what you mean by social class...are you talking economically or are you talking about being accepted at the local country club?

[Gen]

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woieeeeeeeeeee


skells mine smaddy come cuss yuh ask yuh if yuh a eediat fi ask such a question and if yuh nevah experience classism a JA.

and mi see weh this chread is heading

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Does one's race determine one's status in society? Does being black impede one's ability to move up from a lower social class to a higher one? Discuss. </div></div>
Social upward mobillity,has to be earned,and worked at constantly.
social <span style="font-weight: bold">downward </span>mobillity, is easy.
The mere being black may not impede ones social mobillity, but being black and not realizing that social acceptance for member of your race requires constant action on your part to maintain it will impede soccial acceptance.

Further black people have to also recognize that once social acceptance is achieved, additional effort has to be made to achieve social <span style="font-weight: bold">upward </span> mobillity.
As for social <span style="font-weight: bold">downward</span> mobillity,that is never impeded.

i will go further to add that the latter is actrually always an ever present possobillity.

[Wahalla]

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Well mi is highly socially mobile.. Mi started at the bottom and went even lower... no impediment expernienced as I deepene how low one can go!