These days we all too often see folks going on about equality. Many make the claims that "minorities" lack the basic ability to access fundamental resources. Now in times past, that was certainly true; in the 19th century and earlier you would be hard pressed to merely get by if you weren't from certain white groups. However that time and those people are long gone. There is little to nothing a white can do or access in modern America that a non-white can't.
Recently we've heard talk from a certain political party of how black Americans can't easily aquire an ID or don't know what the word computer means. This is not only false, but is a kind of racism; that is, it is the racsim of low expectations. We hear similar things about women being less common in powerful, high paying jobs and so forth. Yet we very rarely hear of women being under represented in dirty, unpleasent jobs. This is a lopsided idea of equality where the proponents of "equality" only want the positive benefits. They're perfectly content leaving the unpleasent aspects of equality to someone else.
If we impose laws to force "equality" based on race, gender, etc., what then will the end result be? Obviously we will end up with people in positions for which they are wholly unqualified. In some fields that doesn't matter much, but who wants an "equality" hire as their plane's pilot or as their doctor? No one, not even the folks who push this junk.
The truth is quite different from these typically left wing views. In reality no one is equal to anyone else, and as Thomas Sowell has famously said, you're not even equal to yourself on different days. We all have strengths and weaknesses; success is acquired by playing to your strengths, not by demanding to be treated as if you have someone else's strengths when you don't.
So what do we do? Well, as individuals we can't change the world or even every aspect of our own lives. What we can do is do the best with what we have, work within our strengths, and stop worrying about what somebody else is able to do. We should also treat others the way we want to be treated regardless of their gender, race, etc. If we all treated one another this way, perhaps we could find a sort of equality that doesn't stem from covetousness or resentment.
