This isn't my fight and I don't care to make it mine, but the back and forth is worthy of a view from someone that has not participated in this.
To JuliefromOhio, You are not winning people over to your side - that is if you have one. Maybe you're mean because, as others have pointed out, you are a racist. In being so crass and rude, it probably embarrasses the left and kind of serves as a subliminal message about what motivates them.
Early in life I had a lot of disadvantages. Just as I was getting into my teen years we had the oil embargo and that put a damper on jobs. I'm getting old enough to get a car, driver's license, etc. and all of a sudden there are no jobs. Between that and affirmative action, whites began to be locked out of the job market.
In 1978 (or thereabouts) a guy named Bakke went to court against affirmative action and proved, conclusively, that whites had been discriminated against in educational opportunities. I personally knew the drill at that time. I got laid off from a union contract job because of my race; got turned down from a college because I was not a black female. One year I kept a journal because I was applying for jobs. Many jobs made much ado about being Equal Opportunity Employers. At job application 121 I quit looking for a job as all those EOE employers only hired non-whites. You would not believe what I did in the 1970s because there were no jobs.
If whites complain about the status quo, they are considered to be racists. Even if they make the affirmation... "I don't care what color you are...blah, blah, blah," once you realize that the system is pushing non-whites ahead of the whites, you are a racist. I don't give two hoots in hell about that any longer. Names don't affect me.
When my generation grew up, our parents (and the educators of the time) used to keep telling us that two wrongs don't make a right. Well, if the treatment of the 60s and before that were unfair to the blacks, the 70s forward were inexcusable due to the whites affected. Anybody who looks at where the opportunities end up can see that non-whites (be it black, foreigner, etc.) are making great strides forward while the whites are locked out.
If I would have had the opportunities the non-whites had, I would have gone further with my life. OTOH, I own real estate, have a credit rating that hovers around 800 and I can eat in any restaurant I choose to. But, I do know that a lot of people in my age group didn't fare so well because the deck was stacked against us.
