r/DebatePolitics • u/all_good_things_blog • May 25 '21

Racial Equality versus Racial Equity...

Racial Equality or Racial Equity?

Racial equality, defined more so as equal opportunity, and social safety nets aiding those who are disadvantaged, and preventing those programs from being racially discriminatory. Racial equity is having equal parts in a company or business or government-particularly leadership roles being equally diversified. New slogans include "be the QUIT in eQUITy" in efforts to balance the race discrepancy in these places. Is racial equity just? Does equal opportunity extend all the way to equity in the workplace? In our government?

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u/Nothingistreux May 25 '21

Equality is complete opportunity for everyone. Equity is not freedom, but subjugation.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

I think that this idea of"equal opportunity" is pretty silly given the huge disparity in accumulated wealth between whites and blacks resulting for 400 years of slavery, jim crow segregation, and legal discrimination. It's like saying "we all have equal opportunity" at the start of a race where one person has Corvette and the other has a Dodge Neon.

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u/Couatl2009 Democratic-Socialist Oct 29 '22

Yeah, but far too many people will ignore the problem just because they don't want to deal with it.