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Originally Posted by NCB
I've experienced more discrimination when I was growing up working class (and believe it or not, the Army was the worst) than I do now, and my skin color or my name hasn't changed one bit. These days, I believe it's more classism than racism. Could I get into the local country club? Probably not, but I'm not going to scream discrimination.
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But that is discrimination. Just because you don't want to say anything about it doesn't make it inherently wrong for someone else to want to do something about it.
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Originally Posted by Seaver
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.
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!
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You may experience discrimination here or there, but have you ever been:
pulled over for being white?
been followed aroud a department store because you were white?
been denied a loan because you were white?
been given a loan with a higher interest rate because you were white?
Being white doesn't make everything easy, it just makes many things easier.