Burning a cross or a crucifix or swastika in someone's yard. Prejudging someone, an individual, based on a group stereotype. By the way, we're in night school now and everyone is looking around the computer, so please answer. This is a question I have given a lot of thought to and have even given commencement speeches in high school and colleges. It is a mathematical formula.
Success equals opportunity plus preparation.
Success does not equal opportunity. The doors to success can be wide open, but if you are too drunk or too high to stagger through them, you will not make it. Success does not equal preparation. You can study as hard as you want to, and you must, but if there is no opportunity, you will join the ranks of the unemployed. Only when your preparation through skills, character, education, come together with growing opportunity for all, can one claim to be successful.