Posted on 03/06/2011 12:13:07 PM PST by triumphant values
They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights.
They complained of voter intimidation at the polls.
They called for ethnic studies programs to promote racial pride.
They are, some say, the new face of racial oppression in this nation -- and their faces are white.
"We went from being a privileged group to all of a sudden becoming whites, the new victims,'' says Charles Gallagher, a sociologist at La Salle University in Pennsylvania who researches white racial attitudes and was baffled to find that whites see themselves as a minority.
"You have this perception out there that whites are no longer in control or the majority. Whites are the new minority group."
Call it racial jujitsu: A growing number of white Americans are acting like a racially oppressed majority. They are adopting the language and protest tactics of an embattled minority group, scholars and commentators say. They point to these signs of racial anxiety:
• A recent Public Religion Research Institute poll found 44% of Americans surveyed identify discrimination against whites as being just as big as bigotry aimed at blacks and other minorities. The poll found 61% of those identifying with the Tea Party held that view, as did 56% of Republicans and 57% of white evangelicals.
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Very true...especially if you live in cities like SF, LA, etc. I know this, because unfortunately I’m still in one. The hate seeps.
Yes.
Next question...
And the most twisted irony is Whites were the ones who developed the concept that any of those things were crimes in the first place.
The rest of the world kept right on doing them without remorse and much of it still does today.
You'd be hard pressed to find a Han Chinese self-flagellating over Tibet like the English do over Pakistan, India or South Africa.
Yes I am oppressed.
The Fed owes me reparations for 100 years of violence and hatred against “my people”.
An elderly white woman and her son in some crap neighborhood in a Delaware city would beg to differ on the priveleged account. On Youtube they just yanked a video filmed by some black racists (who need to be executed) who decided to lynch some “priveleged.”
What gets to me is that after electing a man who was supposed to “heal” the wounds of a nation. He has picked at the scab and it has festered to a point that even CNN can’t ignore it.
Imagine if the Head of the Justice department was white. refused to prosecute white people claiming that they were “his people”. Would the media let that slip and just leave it alone for the most part?
Affirmative action had a place in our country. Up until about 20 years ago. Now it just works against qualified people regardless of their skin color.
I don’t think I would want a job or any special consideration just because of my skin color.
But apparently it has become a very desirable license for many people that can’t do or get things on their own merit.
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