Re: And this is why Affirmative Action...Works and Always Has
by
StevieN
10/02/2009, 7:55 PM
Degsme. I smile every time I see you jump on your "white males must be put down" wagon--your number one issue. I only wish I could understand your motivations--since you're a white male yourself. So am I. But I fail to see why it's so important for society to focus its vitriol on me (and it has--I've felt it). Both sides of my white family had ALWAYS been poor--my father's family were the poorest of Eastern European farmers. I know because I personally visited the mud huts they lived in (in the '60s). I'm the first of either side of the family to go to university, and the first to make any significant money and/or not be a wage slave--at best.
What's my crime again? Why the enthusiam to find the "social criminals," and IDENTIFY them by race and gender?
There have ALWAYS been more poor and downtrodden within ANY race or gender than there have been priviledged. Don't you know that? There are and have always been PLENTY of oppressed white men. I will admit there are far fewer now than, say, two hundred years ago. But I see that as a good thing--there are also far fewer oppressed Blacks and far fewer oppressed women. Apparently, things are trending better for everyone, without needing to put down white men to create that trend. So...why are there (happily only a few) lingering zealots like yourself who NOW see the key to "progress" to be the oppresion of white males?