The Rodney King Riots Affirmative Action comes under fire. The purpose of this course is to explore issues that involve minorities in general. It is not intended to address specific minorities . This presentation assumes that all minorities share certain characteristics . It does not matter whether we are talking about the relationship between the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland or the relationship between the Chinese and the Moslems in Malaysia.
Economic inequality is the major common characteristic of all minority groups .
Many civil rights leaders have ultimately come to embrace economic injustice as the crucial issue. Malcolm X Malcolm X, who was a radical for Afro-American causes during the early 1960s began his political career totally hating white people. He had good grounds to do so based on discrimination he had experienced during his early life. Ultimately, however, even Malcolm X came to embrace economic issues as more significant than race issues. After a trip to Mecca where he discovered whites praying to the same god as he, he came back to the United States proclaiming a new philosophy.