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Old 03-05-2004, 01:36 PM
blathe blathe is offline
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obviously I have no actual data to back it up, but by more prevelent I mean %-wise. Of course there are a lot more caucasions in the US, thus the term "minority" for other racial groups. I'm only judging by what I see, not some hard data.

And I also agree that "reverse racism" is somewhat redundant.. but I don't know how else to refer to the type of racism that says "we were were repressed for X years so you should pay for it now"....

Essentially my point is that anything that is segregating the races is at fault... whether they be black or white. In our society today it is generally accepted to allow anything for blacks only or for hispanics only or whatever but if you so much as suggest something for whites only you are instantly branded a racist. It gets even uglier when we start trying to force segragation with things such as hiring quotas... companies are forced to hire X% of minority employees in order for anybody to consider them an equal opportunity employer which can lead to situations where qualified people aren't considered because they aren't a minority. All of these kinds of things are racism and they propigate the problem rather than solving it.... but by pointing this out I'm likely putting myself in a position to be labeled a racist myself. And this was what I was getting at.

Racism will never be gone until all sides view each other as equals... we can't undo what happened in the past, we can only control what we do now.
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