President Bill Clinton's Lack Of Equality

At the 2012 Democratic Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, President Bill Clinton gave this speech to over 35,000 people, and the standing ovation that proceeded was extraordinary. In the address, President Clinton supported the Presidential nominee, Barack Obama, and his efforts to stimulate the economy once again, as the economic recession was destroying thousands of jobs across the country. This excerpt of President Clinton’s speech proposes that equal opportunity, among other circumstances, promotes education and hinders poverty. What’s interesting is the relationship between favorable contingencies, and the moral figures that both promote and implement them.
From healthy standards to moral guidance, parents who are unable to monitor and direct their children promote an unwholesome life that leads to poor ethical development and few …show more content…
This is because it is human nature to be competitive and often the aspiration to succeed causes disparity to rise. While some examples, such as equal rights and freedom of speech, are obvious cases of equality, others are not so evident. In 2010, the National Poverty Center recorded a study on the relationship between race and poverty. In the report, they found that 73.2% of families living in poverty with children under eighteen years old were either Black or Hispanic (3). These races are deprived of equality. This statistic is significant because it means that Blacks and Hispanics lack resources that others do not, such as an effective education. This is where the issue of racial segregation lies. Even though members of minority races are very successful in the world, few came from low economic families. Furthermore, a child’s skin color should not define their education or their future opportunities because schools in America are not dominated by a single race but a multitude of different ethnicities and backgrounds, and have been since the Civil Rights