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Perhaps when you experience discrimination based on your heritage on a relatively regular basis.
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Whoot! I finally get aided by AA! Because I HAVE been turned down jobs because I was white in a Mexican heavy town. I HAVE been denied shopping at shops and eating in restaurants cause I am white. But wait... I'm white... no one cares.
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because you are white, you have inherent privilages and advantages that minorities don't. and it's not because you work harder than them, it's purely based on race. until things like race don't matter and people are judged purely on their merits, it's necessary to have programs like AA to level the field, so that it isn't tilted so far towards us whites that we're back in the 50's.
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So you disagree with Lincoln when he said you can't build one man up by tearing another man down? How about at least telling me, with a history of being overtly discriminated against, how I have inherant privlages and advantages by being white? How about when a friend of mine (who happened to be of Mexican descent), who made worse grades than me, was involved in less extra-curricular activities, held down no job in HS, and family had almost double our income with only one child got a full ride... and I had to join the military to pay for college (we applied to the exact same scholarships, I applied for many more to boot).
Man being white makes things so easy!