This article is an example of people living in different worlds.
To many of us, minorities have never had it better in America. We look at policies such as affirmative action, and think to ourselves, that a black woman veteran, for example, can write her own ticket. We perceive that due to affirmative action, it will be difficult to discipline or terminate a member of a recognized minority group.
This writer lives in a world in which white men are perceived to have so many advantages in life, and that things are handed to them on a silver platter. Many of us would take issue with his premise.
If they are so awesome and have to be twice as good, then where is the list of innovations, scientific and technical achievements?
What a bunch of pap. The main discrimination in many positions is against Caucasian men. They have no recourse.
Bingo. The underlying assumption of the article is that there's some magical pot of gold out there, and it's unfair that whites get more than blacks.
There's no consideration given to where the goodies actually come from. They're just there to be divvied up.
It's like the Obama voter after the 2008 election who talked about all the benefits she was going to get. When asked where it would come from, she paused a moment, and then said, "Obama's stash."
There is a reason for the writer’s attitude.
If you can blame your problems and failures on someone else your failures are resolved - it wasn’t your fault!
Listen closely to children in the second grade and earlier explaining why they didn’t win the game. That is you can still find any of them playing competitive games at school.
BL - like or not we best learn from failure. The most important, IMHO, lesson to be learned in elementary school is failing at something is not the end of the world; it shows you where you need to work a little harder. My greatest failure as a parent was that I didn’t offer my children more chances to succeed and fail when they were living with me; when there was a safety net to support them.
Since that lesson, failure is a learning tool, is not taught in elementary, middle, high school, or college any more we see ‘educated” people writing articles justifying their failure because someone else didn’t do what they were supposed to do. We have a lot of 20-year olds that are behaving like 5-year olds; and it is only going to get worse.