Race and Gender Discrimination
__________________________________________________________________________ Analogies between racial and gender discrimination are highly problematic, both theoretically and historically. Discrimination can perhaps be better understood when analogized with cancer. Discrimination, like cancer, kills humanity. Discrimination, like cancer, comes in many specific forms. And each form of discrimination, like cancer, must be recognized treated with specific and focused efforts. The purpose of this paper is to show that when we recognize the differences between racial and gender discrimination we validate history and are more aptly able to end the current oppression of racial minorities and women. Ten years ago one of the most exclusive golf and country clubs in America, Shoal Creek, admitted its first black member after controversy surrounding the club's racial exclusionary policies nearly derailed the club's coveted plans to host the championship tournament for the Professional Golf Association. Today, the National Council for Women is waging a similar war on a different golf and country club. The National Council for Women discovered that Augusta National golf and country club, a privat
That's why racial-exclusionary policies, especially those established by the majority (power) community, must be eliminated from our society. Gender discrimination prevents women from getting equal pay for equal work. In fact, it's foolish to debate which form of cancer (discrimination) is worse. Women-only health spas populate our rich suburbs. By so doing are efforts will create a synergism and progress abound. A hunt for Bin Laden in Texas would draw a lot of attention to a very serious problem, but in the end the hunt wouldn't get us any closer to tracking down Osama. It has been proven in this country that there are benefits to gender-exclusive organizations and clubs. High-priced, all-girls schools produce some of this country's finest leaders. Specifically, The National Council for Women requested that corporate sponsors of the tournament including, IBM and Citibank withdraw their financial from the tournament at Augusta National. I however, believe Augusta National isn't the proper battleground for the war on gender discrimination. Men and women sleep together, eat together, vacation together, carpool together, work together and go to school together. Which brings me back to the National Council for Women, they're arguing that Augusta National needs to open its membership to women primarily for the same reason it welcomed a black member, for the same reason golfers and major corporations turned against exclusionary Shoal Creek. We're an overwhelmingly heterosexual society.
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