Posted on 10/15/2020 3:04:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Some Americans are discriminated against because of their race, but it is not who you think.
The clearest definition of “racism” is treating people differently according to their race. Systemic or institutional racism is racism “expressed in the practice of social and political institutions.”
Many American policies and laws are designed to ensure that people of all races, creeds, ethnicities, genders, and sexualities are treated equally, such as the Sixth Amendment, guaranteeing the right to “a fair and speedy public trial by jury,” the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery, the Fifteenth Amendment, prohibiting the denial of the right to vote based on race, the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting the denial of the right to vote on the basis of gender.
President Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, following up similar earlier orders by Presidents Roosevelt and Eisenhower, required government contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” It established the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO). Title IX of the Education Amendments Act forbids unequal treatment based on sex (gender) in federally funded programs.
But everything changed with subsequent orders, such as President Johnson’s, that required “contractors with 51 or more employees and contracts of $50,000 or more to implement affirmative action plans to increase the participation of minorities and women in the workplace if a workforce analysis demonstrates their under-representation, meaning that there are fewer minorities and women than would be expected given the numbers of minorities and women qualified to hold the positions available.”
President Obama followed, and upped the ante, with “Executive Order 13583– Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce.”
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Yes they are. As unconstitutional as forcing some citizens
to pay more tax than others...
yup- i lost out on a chance at the FBI because i was a white male. My dad was denied promotion in the NYPD for the ame reason.
lets not forget the systemic sexism that exists here against all men
Yes.
And California recently changed the law to avoid white males going to court for relief——
——Democratic Legislature in California has voted to codify racial discrimination in state law. On Wednesday the state Senate voted for a constitutional amendment, ACA 5, that would reintroduce racial preferences for who gets a state job or contract, or who is admitted to a state university.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-vote-for-discrimination-11593127619
Says the George Floyd “protests” speeded up the process to insure it would soon be legal to hire anyone but whites as a policy.
Angry yet????
They are some real winners. I wouldn't pick them to walk my dog.
Yes, as far as I know, Affirmative Action is the only Systemic Racism that we have.
Same here re med school, about 50 years ago. It’s been around for a long time.
A woman I know could not get a job in public relations because she was white. When she applied for a job, her prospective employer would tell her that her qualifications were excellent but that they had to hire a member of a minority group for the position. And in one case, when the position reopened because the minority couldn’t cut it, they told her that the next hire would also have to be a minority. This was bitterly ironic because her mother had suffered discrimination because her parents were immigrants from Poland.
She told me that she knew others in the same predicament and that one man was even driven to suicide because of his inability to get a job because he was a white male.
At one point, she even considered translating her last name to Spanish. She finally gave up and opened a cake-baking business.
yes yes yes YES!
the most glaring and damaging Systemic Racism in America is our “affirmative action” quotas
they stink to high heaven and are patently unconstitutional, they were supposed to be only a short term TEMPORARY measure to begin with
(just like the federal income tax was supposed to only collect from the titans of industry and “the average worker will never pay one thin dime in the new federal income tax” per its campaign promising)
also the federal withholding from your paycheck was supposed to be a TEMPORARY measure to help the fed’s cash flows in preparing to wage a successful WW2
but I digress, sorry. we must end this racist discrimination by law... affirmative action... it is HORRIBLE and is destroying, rotting out our country and our core concepts of equal opportunity and equal justice
I talk about it. It’s illegal and unconstitutional. Any law that “allows” it is invalid and not binding.
Agree with the posts above as I saw a Puerto Rican in Huntsville, AL get GOV/DOD contracts based on Section 8a.
I had thought 8a was for blacks only. It also gave Puerto Ricans the same edge on Gov contracts. This guy was a retired warrant officer. He had no engineering degree. No, not a BSEE, MSEE and/or PHD Eng MGMT, like my BIL has. I set my BIL up as a disabled Vet owned business. who was a CPT in Vietnam. He had several service connected disabilities and met the requirements. Yes, he is a retired multimillionaire now, but; these 8a types like the WO have preference over combat vets who own a disabled Vet business. Race plus females have preference.
I remember “Affirmative action” political cartoons from the early 1960s.
One I still recall was a line of white men, with one black man way in the back, looking for work.
The employment agent points way to the back to the one black man, and says..”You’re Next!” passing up all those ahead of him.
Agree. The most qualified should get the job. No damn quotas.
It’s sad how those of us of that generation were treated. We lived our whole lives under Affirmative action. Many of us suffered age discrimination under Obama later on. Now they talk of reparations. Our generation already paid that debt.
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I recall my summer job in 1962. I unloaded boxcars with black men in the hot VA sun in those boxcars. LBJ was not
into his Great Society BS. All Black men worked and supported their wife/family with some exceptions. After Kennedy was bushwhacked LBJ dumped his BS on us. Nixon went along with it. Black men did not stay home by 1970 as free housing/projects were checked for men past x dark hour.
I’ve said this several times.. If you really want to see real systemic ‘racism’, try being a young white male looking to pay for college.
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