Chris Rock Affirmative Action

Affirmative action?

Chris Rock makes a good point that if he does not get a better grade on a test then he should not get in to a school or get a job ahead of anyone that gets a better grade than him. However, if there is a tie, then he should get the job over a white person. “They [whites] have had a full hundred year head start.” This humor is quite true in a sense though. White people did have a head start. They prevented many blacks from an education and the opportunity to read and write. I know it cannot be made up to blacks now, but it would seem “more fair” to give ties to the black people. Chris also says that it is suspected that the smartest and the brightest run the country. This is not true though. Our nation is a “nation in the middle” with mostly B or C students. The problem of our nation is that a black C student cannot be manager of a Burger King as Chris said, and yet a white C student can be president of the United States.

Whites are privileged in our society and that would be extremely difficult to end. If everyone works together though, we can make a difference and reduce the white privilege. We should make a goal to strive for more equality among people of any color or ethnicity.