Each is unique. Quotas requiring businesses to reflect the area's black population in their workforce regardless of qualifications, reduce the process of living together to a numbers game, raise white suspicion and anger, and increase black doubt. Doing nothing, however, conveys to those who discriminate that they can do so with impunity. I want no government controls of profits or stigmatizing of success. I think our system today is much too severe.
Golden parachutes protect the top guys, so there's no empathy.
You have safety nets for the poor. I see the fabric of our society, middle class America, being torn apart by this greed for profit. Perhaps the answer is to make it easier for unions to organize, if they can show that they are democratically run. Such is the guiding paradox of America. On a personal note, I would like to say that it was past leaders with just such beliefs who helped break down the discriminatory immigration policies against southern Europeans and allowed my grandparents, illiterate and penniless, to come to this great country in search of a better life, which they found, not from handouts, but from hard work and dedication to family.