Instigator / Pro
1
1500
rating
32
debates
59.38%
won
Topic
#6093
Some racism affects some parts of USA today
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 1 vote and with 1 point ahead, the winner is...
TheGreatSunGod
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 2
- Time for argument
- Two days
- Max argument characters
- 5,000
- Voting period
- Two weeks
- Point system
- Winner selection
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Con
0
1500
rating
3
debates
0.0%
won
Description
racism definition:
People of different races getting different treatment in the past
affects definition:
Caused some change to
These definitions are agreed upon by Pro and Con after debate is accepted. They cannot be changed.
Round 1
racism definition:
People of different races getting different treatment in the past
affects definition:
Caused some change to
These definitions are agreed upon by Pro and Con after debate is accepted. They cannot be changed.
Obviously, racism did exist in the past in USA. Slavery comes to mind. Since slavery directly affected black people back then, it made it more difficult for black people to gain total wealth.
Think of it this way then. Children of slaves inherited less wealth than children of white people did.
This caused them to advance less, and thus their own children advanced less as well then, and this delay in advancing remained till today.
To put it simply, racism harmed the starting point, and any delay in starting point is always a delay in total achievemnment.
Given equal resources, you will always get further if your starting point was better.
If you can run only 1 mile, but someone moves starting point back 2 miles, you cant reach your goal.
So when black people were slaves, they had less opportunity to improve and pass that improvement on all their future generations. Thus, amount of improvement which could have been passed to today's generations has reduced.
Forfeited
Round 2
Um okay.
Forfeited
