Originally Posted by
minimwage4
To those who think there's really no discrimination you're just fooling yourselves. Years ago I applied to throw boxes at a reputable cargo company and the base was in a pretty ghetto area... Out of the 40 or 60 applicants that showed up for the cattle call guess who they hired? Yours truly and another white dude. 2! Out of all those non whites. Granted we both werent into crack, hadn't been to jail and had degrees but we both came to the conclusion that they were trying to fill a quota. This is reverse of what were talking about here but whites can be minorities too in certain fields.
Whites (and asians and middle-easterners) may be minorities in certain fields but other than certain pro sports and musical genres, they are probably not particularly desirable fields to be in.
There's no doubt some minorities in america are disadvantaged but it's no longer because of discrimination...it's because of lacking educational opportunities and cultural attitudes of some minority sub-groups.
Can you still find discrimination? Sure if you look hard in the deep south and one or two other rural niches, but it's not pervasive in mainstream america. Every group has their haters.
The solution IMO is to raise the kids right...society needs to provide the opportunity in school and the parents (and broader cultural groups) need to encourage and enable kids to take advantage of that...anybody who is reasonably smart and applies themselves can get a full ride college scholarship in this country. This gets folks into the mainstream as productive members of society, as opposed to special treatment and handouts which drains our resources and perpetuates the problem.