O.K. then let's talk the truth. The social structure of America was built on racism and sexism. White males used sexism and racism to dominate non-White people and women and create economic, social and political advantages that exist to this day. While you are sitting here b*tiching about how Affirmative Action discriminates against White males for the last 40 years, White males enjoyed Affirmative Action in the American colonies and what is now the United States for about 300 years which gave them such advantages at various stages of American history as:
The exclusive right to vote
The exclusive right to hold political office.
The exclusive right to create laws which discriminated against non-White people and women.
The right to buy other human being from Africa and to work them, whip them, rape them, mutilate them, lynch them, sell them and threat them anyway you like, while denying them their language, heritage, culture, families and humanity.
The exclusive opportunity to hold the jobs in society that paid the most money and had the most prestige.
Exclusive opportunity to attend the most prestigious colleges and universities.
Exclusive opportunity to access financial capital to finance a home or business venture.
Exclusive opportunity to become President of the United States, a Supreme Court justice or a cabinet secretary or a state governor.
Exclusive opportunity to join labor unions
Exclusive opportunity to join clubs and other organization where you could associate with other White males and create more opportunity, privilege, and rights for yourself while keeping those same things away from others as long as it was poiltically, socially, or economically possible.
Exclusive privilege to live wherever you like.
This rights, opportunities and privileges allowed White males to create wealth, privilege and opportunity and then pass those down to their children to create more wealth, privilege and opportunity. At the they were same passing those things down from generation to generation while denying others that same thing.
The result is an unequal society because that's exactly what White males wanted.
In short for about 300 years White males in the United States enjoyed the best Affirmative Action program in modern history. The reason you are pissed that it's gone is that you've had it for so long it feels like your birthright.
As a white male you feel it's 'unnatural' and 'unfair' to allow other groups of people to enjoy the same rights, privileges and opportunities since the first White Male settler touch foot in Jamestown.
Sorry but that era is drawing to a close and that's why so many white males feel such anger and resentment.
Yea I know it's a b*tch giving other Americans the same rights, privileges and opportunities you've had to yourself for so long but don't worry somehow you'll survive and believe or not we will all live in a more prosperous and harmonious country in the long run.
Now that's the truth.
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