On Wednesday 28 October 2015, an ethics discussion was held with a topic on racial equality. There were several arguments that were shared in this discussion, yet there were only two I felt was most persuasive.

The first issue that was discussed was equality within the education systems. Some tried to say it was a racial issue that some inner city school don’t have the same funding as others due to it being a higher population of underprivileged people. Majority of these people happen to be African Americans, and these areas are usually of higher crime rates. One cadet suggested that this problem could possibly be changed if African Americans weren’t in areas as such and that if some were “placed or relocated” to a less populated area they wouldn’t have that problem. I strongly disagree with this portion of the argument. Another cadet suggested that if these problems are occurring it’s the education system that needs to be fixed not a whole community or culture of people. Which is true and more realistic.

There was one argument I also felt was least persuasive. A cadet argued that racial equality has nothing to do with what happen or took place 100 years ago. Therefore, has no impact on people and/or society. Which I believe is a very ignorant thing to say, so I respectfully disagree. That brings me to my Second most persuasive argument, Racial equality steams from slavery. 100 years ago, African Americans were not seen as human beings, they were slaves, animals, and property. There was no racial equality present. However, that was years ago but unfortunately some people still look at African Americans as such. Just as many African Americans reap the scars of their ancestors.