Why do whites blame blacks for reverse discrimmination?

Question

-All they talk about is "Oh, I've had racism used against me..damn Affirmative Action..blacks get welfare..I gotta work for my family"

LOL

Wake up! Whites are a majority in this country! Why waste your time typing your problems on here; if you want a white history month GO GET ONE! There is nothing black people can do in America--we're the MINORITY! If all whites felt the same, you could do it!

But they don't!

Obviously, there are some gracious whites who believe the same as blacks that are preventing you from doing that "white power" stuff. Reverse discrimmination? Ha! What you really mean is that whites discrimminate against whites, not blacks..

LOL If you're going to vote me down, at least give me a reason.

Answer 1

Whites don't have the racial solidarity that non-whites do. Basically every "affirmative action" law today is RACIST(anti-whtie).

Answer 2

Reverse discrimination is real. Minorities get a hand up at many times when Caucasians are left in the dust, such as college entrance, employment, etc.

I disagree that there is "nothing black people can do in America". Blacks hold many positions of power in this nation - Condaleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and the list goes on. If we can go get a white history month, you and any person of black ethnicity can go and get power - I'm not trying to take it from you, and I doubt I know anyone else who is white that would.

If you deny that reverse discrimination is real, why should we believe you that discrimination against blacks is real?

Answer 3

I think all people have prejudices, but you can be prejudice against anything and not just race. having someone prejudice against you is different then reverse discrimination. I honestly don't believe in reverse discrimination. I don't think minorities can discriminate against a race of people who already have all the power in this country. What are we gonna do... stop them from getting into our crappy schools, refuse them food from our overpriced unhealthy local grocery stores, refuse to bus them into the most deprived areas for some of our good views of industrial plants and abandoned cars, and give them less then appropriate health care when they twice as much work. I think people use the term "reverse discrimmination" when they don't understand or care why we've had to instill some of these things like affirmative action into our society.

Answer 4

Racism goes both ways. I obviously am a white girl but back in HS (It was a primarily black community) I was discriminated against a lot. Being called names is not a fun thing. I understand there was slavery... But this was 100s of years ago, and I was not a slave owner, my mother, nor her mother were. Why would I treat you differently than a white person walking down the street? I know I wouldn't. But would you?

Answer 5

I have to admit that when other white people b*tch about Black History Month, or whatever, it sounds kind of stupid to me. Or rather, it sounds as though the person complaining doesn't realize that what they are really saying is, "I don't mind if they are equal to me, so long as they're not TOO equal."

Just the same, do me a favor, will you? Please don't use the term "reverse discrimination." Any form of prejudiced behavior directed toward a race is "discrimination." When you say "reverse discrimination," it sounds like what YOU'RE really saying is, "it's not really discrimination unless a white person is doing it."

Answer 6

Actually, it's the asians who are discriminated against in America. Affirmative action doesn't affect whites, it raises the bar for asians trying to get into top schools and lowers it for blacks and hispanics. Is it the 2nd gen chinese applicant's fault that the race they happened to be born into consistently stastically scores higher than the average?

If affirmative action were removed in top schools, more asians would be admitted, less blacks and hispanics would be admitted, and the number of whites would remain about the same. Affirmative action helps one group of minorities at the expense of another.

Addendum: Affirmative action is not "payback" for 400 years of hurt. The hurt wasn't inflicted on you, and it wasn't inflicted by anyone living today. If it wasn't for the slaves sold from africans to europeans centuries ago, the blacks in america today wouldn't even be here, they'd be in Africa right now dying of malaria, starvation, or AIDS. I don't owe anyone anything for what happened 200 years ago, because I didn't have anything to do with it (not to mention half of my ancestors weren't even Americans at that time). If anyone is owed anything, it's the former slave owners who legally bought property and then were stripped of it by the government with no compensation (abhorrent thought, but valid nonetheless). The ultimate goal of affirmative action should be to make itself irrelevant. Different standards for different races breeds racism, and racism is wrong.

Answer 7

i get what your saying and i don't care if i'm labeled as a racists white people swear that america and minorities are out to get them they get mad because minorities get funds and holidays we should whites haven't done nothing but oppressed minorities in america they try to say they aren't racists but the majority of questions asked on here is a white person saying why does a black person do this...who care were all people and when you say something about a white person they go crazy everyone has a right to defend what they feel offended by and white people seem to think their the only race in america who's been in slavery and not able to get a good job or get into the best ivy league school in the country when they can get that with sitting on their asses but i totally agree with what your saying

Answer 8

A year ago my wife, myself and 3 children were walking down the street in Florida on vacation when an automobile came by with 3 young black males in the car started screaming at us and pretending to shoot at us. Was this discriminating or would they have done the same to a black family.

Answer 9

The only reason I would vote you down is because you are making ridiculous over-generalizations. How do you expect anything to change for the better if you alienate the people you need to work with by making statements like "all they talk about"?

This sort of talk is very foolish and never productive.

Answer 10

Because white people have a lot to live down. We have a pile of collective guilt we're trying like hell to rationalize. In a weird way attempting to find some common ground... Like, "hey - we're all in this discrimination thing together." Of course that's a load of bull.

I think we need to start seeing ourselves as one big human race. Forget the other stuff.

Answer 11

There are at least as many, relativly speaking, black racists as there are white racists...and yellow racists...and brown racists... and olive racists and onandonandonandonandon racists are everywhere....

If more blacks paid attention to Bill Cosby instead of the revs. Jessy and Sharpton, they might find things would turn around in their lives...for the better. and give up the ebonics

And more whites need to openly condem the "white power BS"