Discrimination Against Whites
David Green, 4 January 2005
According to The Times, the Lake District national park authority is to scrap guided walks by volunteer rangers because too high a proportion of participants are white. Mick Casey, a media officer for the authority, said that ‘only 35,000’ per year took part: “The majority who do the walks are white, middle-class, middle-aged people,” he said. “The Government is encouraging national parks to appeal to young people, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.”
Can this really have been the intention of the Government? After all, if everything in which the majority of participants were white, middle-aged and middle-class were scrapped, what would be left? The tax burden is disproportionately met by white, middle-class and middle-aged people, but I doubt whether Gordon Brown wants to scrap income tax. And what if the national park authority had expressed the opposite preference? Too many of the people going on the guided walks are black, working class and old (or young); therefore the walks should be scrapped.
Discrimination is wrong when it involves prejudice. Landlords who put up signs saying ‘no blacks’ were prejudiced. That is, they failed to judge individuals on their own merits. But what’s the difference between a landlord refusing accommodation to people because they are black and a national park authority refusing to offer a service to people because they are white (not to mention middle-class and middle-aged)?
The under-representation of ethnic groups in a particular workplace or activity may be the result of prejudice. It might also be for any number of other reasons. (Perhaps members of ethnic minorities have got better things to do than go on guided walks.) The mere existence of disproportionate representation provides no proof of prejudice one way or the other. To believe otherwise is like arguing that; ‘Postboxes are red; therefore every red thing is a postbox.’
I just have to agree with all these writings. Living here in Canada, African-American rights are not as much of a topic as Native-Americans are.
Nowadays this is just seemingly becoming more and more ridiculous. How are we supposed to rid our countries of racism and when we keep implementing more program/advantages specified to a certain race or culture. All actions like this will do is drive more dislike from the group that is not recieving the same treatment.
White Pride! Don’t be ashamed of who you are.
That goes to all races and cultures. Its not the governments job to persevere your culture. Their job is to support the success and strive for EVERYBODY.
Take it upon yourself to spread your pride and your appreciation for everyone.
I have read the comments and must say that everyone on both sides is correct. President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960’s and it allows for reverse discrimination to bring about equality, but with no time frame. Thousands have lost jobs, raises and promotions to balance the workplace. Many managers up to even today lose their jobs for trying to discipline minority workers… and then were accused of racism. This minority rights only has divided this nation into groups that persaude our politicians to look over the white middle class male. As one attorney told me..”you are the most unrepresented people in America.” I wished we had a country like the African Americans claim to have where we could go and raise our families and live in peace.
I work at a liberal arts college and am dealing with an issue were I feel I have been discriminated against once already and maybe again soon. The college I work for hired a new president a couple years ago and all he has talked about since he arrived is “diversity”. The college I work for asks about $45,000 per year for tuition in a very white populated area. There is a decent number of Mexicans who make up the majority of the minority in the area. The Mexican population is growing and the town is almost 50/50 white-mexican. I have worked for the school for 6 years. A job became available that I was very qualified for. I had even filled in and done this job twice for a couple months at a time while the previous person was out with an illness. I was told about the job opening before it went public. I was also told that if I applied the job would be mine, by the woman who was in charge of hiring for this position. She told me that as a technicality they would have to post it in the paper for a couple weeks. Then after that I would start. I asked her if I could tell my boss that I was receiving a new job in a couple weeks so he could be aware and start looking for my replacement. She said that I could. A couple weeks went by and I didn’t hear from her. So, I called curious about some paperwork I’d have to fill out and scheduling things. She said that the position wasn’t her responsibility anymore. It was given to another woman in a different department. I asked why this happened and if the new woman in charge had known I’d already been offered the job. I wasn’t given any direct answer. My resume and application wasn’t even sent over to the new woman currently hiring for the position. So, I took my resume and application to her myself, along with letters of recommendation from two employees that were in charge of the position for many years before it was changed over to this new department. I never received a call for an interview and a mexican man was hired a couple days later. The mexican man who was hired for this position just recently transfered to a security position at the college, which is better pay and an advancement. He only worked his previous job he was hired for, which I applied for and was not interviewed, for 7 months. Since the job is available again. I have re-applied. This time I sent a letter to the president of the college letting him know I have applied and hoping for his support to help an employee advance at a workplace where I have given years and effort to. I have received no response back from the president in over 3 weeks. I was told by the same woman who didn’t interview me last time that the interviews would have started last week. I have yet to get a call for an interview again. This time on the application for employment there is a whole paragraph asking me to answer the question, “How can you bring diversity to the college if hired?”. I’m a white, single 30year old man. Just reading this on the application and being asked to fill it out, I feel behind already. After I put my application in, I received a diversity survey in the mail at my home from the college. If I am passed up for an interview again and see a person that fits any “diversity” categories receiving the job which I applied for twice and didn’t even get interviewed for…. I will feel discriminated against because I’m not diverse enough. Whatever that is. I don’t know what I can do to stand up for myself if this happens or if I have any legal grounds at all to file a discrimination charge against the college. Any educated suggestions to help me with this possible situation would be appreciated.
I was watching a documentary in the Travel Channel and got surprised how whites are definitely NOT welcome in certain regions of Ethiopia. A couple of French explorers (from “Africa Trek” program) had a really hard time crossing the southern part of this country, probably because of local prejudice. They were litterally chased away from that region simply because they were whites.
I agree with everything all of you say. I am very frustrated that I have children that are being bullied by other children that are “african american” and nothing is being done. My child is considered a threat because he is scared everyday.
I myself have seen the reverse card at my own work. I have had people act as ghetto can get to me at my work and get away with it. It is affecting everyone. It does not matter what race you’re, the bottom line is that we’re all people and should treat everyone with the same respect and everyone should have the same rights!
The comment about a White college fund is true! My kids dont have that chance. They dont even have the chance of being the person applying for a job and having an african or hispanic or other ethnic group against them.
Bottom line is the company is going to take the one that fits what they dont have at that time, whether it be a woman, a black, a hispanic etc. it is crap!
Proud To Be White! There, I have finally said it!
Are You?
There are African Canadians, Mexican Canadians, Asian Canadians, Arab Canadians, etc.etc.etc.etc …..and then there are just Canadians.
You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.
You Call me:
‘White boy’
‘Cracker,’
‘Honkey,’
‘Whitey,’
‘Caveman’
… and that’s OK.
But If call you,
Nigger,
Kike,
Towel head,
Sand-nigger,
Camel Jockey,
Beaner,
Gook,
or Chink
You call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you.
So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
The Americans have:
the United Negro College Fund.
Martin Luther King Day.
Black History Month,
Cesar Chavez Day.
Yom Hashoah.
Ma’uled Al-Nabi.
the NAACP and
BET.
If we had
WET (White Entertainment Television) we’d be racists.
A White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
White History Month , we’d be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites to ‘advance’ OUR lives we’d be racists.
We have a Hindu, East Indian, Lebanese, etc.. Chambers of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that?
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.
If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships you know we’d be racists.
There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the United States.
Yet if there were ‘White colleges’ in Canada THAT would be a racist college.
In the Million Man March in the Untied Sates, they believed that they were marching for your race and rights.
If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you’re not afraid to announce it.
But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us.
But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.
I am proud. But you call me, a racist.
Why is it that only whites can be racists?
There is nothing improper about this e-mail.
I am just asking the questions.
My sister is presently in the Chicago area and is a nurse. The U.S. is bringing these nurses from the Phillipines and replacing white nurses. In the workplace they do not speak English which ostracizes the American workers as they do not speak Phillipino. My sister got fired for working too much overtime and after she was gone the focus and abuse has fallen on the other white nurses. Discrimination is a bad thing no matter who is doing the discrimination. This is America which is supposed to be a melding pot of all religons and races. We are supposed to have certain freedoms here which are not offered in all countries. Our native language is English and when someone comes into this country and wants to hold a job then they should speak English as well. I amn an angry white person-because I am sick and tired of other races coming into this country and screaming discrimination and saying that the majority of whites are bigots. I feel that the white race is judged and condemned by other ethnic races based on a few racist lowlifes who have targeted them. I can’t help the skin color that I was born with as most others can’t either. Tolerance is key here for all races to practice. Tolerance, acceptance and deal with the prejudiced jerks of all races to shut their mouths.
I think you are right. White people are forced to tip toe around black people in case of offending someone. That is true. I know that back when my grandmother moved to London she experienced racism, i know that my mother did as well, but i live in a prodominantly white area, and i’m black. I dont feel discriminated against. I go to a prodominantly black college and the white students aren’t discriminated against. I cant stand it when people cry racism for every little thing. And how white people are stigmatised for being racist and when they are racially abused (This is increasingly common) it is ignored. How are we supposed to come together when we are so ignorant and stubborn about eachother? We need to let go of the past in order to look to the future.
I must add to this subject. Discrimination can go both ways. Ethiopia previously wrote whites cannot suggest blacks are discriminating. One minded comment. My mother applied for a job years ago and a black woman was hired instead of her. The manager told my mom, “you are more qualified but we are required to hire a certain number of blacks in the workplace.” This has gone too far!
I agree with this article. My entire life Ive reallized how poorly whites are treated compared to blacks and minorities. Every time I watched the news I could see it. Two people get into a fight, one of them is black and the other is white but only the white man will go to prison because what he did was racist. I also dont like the idea of being able to get money for college just because you have a different color of skin. Their ancestors had to go through slavery not them. I know Im not racist but it makes me sick to see how poorly white americans are treated. In high school I had a mexican friend and he got a $35,000 scholarship but he wasnt even a legal citizen of the united states. I dont think Id have such a big problem with all of this if African-Americans and minorities didnt complain so much. They just complain until they get what they want, and our government always gives in.
Look at what we are talking about, no one cares about what will happen to us in the revalations of times,he the devil don´t give a **** about your color but our soul.After all when we die there wiil be no color but or soul my brethrens and sistrens.
I agree with this article, whites do not get the same treatment as blacks. Its sad that we cant get over and move on form discrimination on all sides of racism. The world will be a better place .
I must raise a comment with relation to the post by Ethiopia Speaks on 14th May 2006. In it he / she asks the reader to read Dr Martin Luther King’s speech. By the rest of his comments, I think that he / she missed the whole point of the speech.
Dr. King was hoping, in the end, for a completely colourblind society; a society in which there is no discrimination due to colour of skin ON EITHER SIDE, because nobody could see the difference. I believe that if Dr. King was alive today, he would be livid at the racism (both subtle and blatant) that is bandied around today by all parties.
We, as a people, need to get it into our heads that we are not white, black, indian, asian, oriental, etc. We do not fit into a category. We are better than that. We are all human beings. Inside we are all the same (for the most part); a self-mobile, senitient bag of meat, blood & bones.
You probably will not put my comments on your website but it is too bad because white people cannot suggest that black people are discriminating.
Secondly, many of us do work very hard but some of us get tired of fighting white people everytime we do something. A black tv channel did not happen because someone cashed in food stamps or asked for a handout. It’s because someone worked hard to learn the trade and produce quality black programming.
Noone in this forum commented on the quality of the shows but that they were black. And black is bad in their eyes.
But white shows go without white in front of them but grand discussions about the program do not cover that it’s white. It’s because it’s done by white people and for white people. So black people don’t talk about black stuff but we talk about the programming.
And Martin Luther King’s speech is about REALITY and not about a DREAM. Read the first 3/4ths of the speech. He is dealing with REALITY like we all should be doing.
I have just sat a test for a job with the UK Foreign Office. At the back they asked me for my ethnicity. Excuse but what relevance did this have to the test. The test categories were maths, speed and accuracy and English, sorry but what did my race have to do with it that if black people can’t do it then it would have to be made simpler for them. Why do we always to have suit blacks, if i went to live in Nigeria, a)they wouldn’t let me aply for a job cos I’m white, b) they wouldn’t give a toss about me being able to do it because of my skin colour. Wake up England you are going to be black before you know it then you’ll really know discrimination.
i agree with the article too, i dont feel that it is right for the government to do something like that to white males. but at the same time i dont feel that its right to go on and criticize the existence of black colleges and such. the black people have suffered for decades at the hands of white americans. these black colleges, awards, channels, etc. are just a testament to how far they’ve come and how their people were finally able to rise up out of their oppression. government discrimination against whites isnt right, but dont bring the blacks and minortities into this. because compared to what theyve gone through, this is cake!
I know first hand about racism. I had an employee who is black, I am white, I had a real connection with him, I thought I was prejudiced until I met him. It was such a great feeling. Now we had to let him go because he was not doing his job. He did not like to take direction from us. Now we are currently go through court preceding because he claims that he was fired because he was black (which is also his nickname).
This couldn’t be further from the truth. We hired him as a temp. He was a real good worker to start, we paid him for a full week, when he didn’t work the whole week, we brought him things back from our vacation, bought lunch, etc. Why would we have hired him, if we were prejudiced. Who protects us from Blacks being prejudiced against whites. Then our lawyer says when Human rights are involved, he will get something ($$). That’s just wrong. I can’t afford to hire black people if all they have to do is to cry racism to get money. I have to be prejudiced because of this and that’s sad.
Remember the old addage – “two wrongs don’t make a right” ? —– Well the concept of Affirmative Action is the second wrong trying to create a right. It just doesn’t work. The only way to create balance and fairness between people of different race today and in the future is to treat them all the same now and in the future. There can be no consideration given to past wrongs because no one can determine what level of compensation will be just, and for exactly what groups of people should it be granted.
If you study mankind’s history with an honest approach you’ll find that literally every race and nationality has been discriminated against by someone at some point in time in a significant manner. If that is true — And I believe it is and it can be proven to be true, then how can you justify recompense for one group of people but not another? You can’t, it just won’t work. It will simply lead to more serious problems and continued injustices over time.
I believe this article is saying many things other people would not have said.
African Americans attend my school. The ‘blacks’ of my school are even MORE racist than the ‘whites’.
The people at my school, (not just Caucasians but Asians, Europeans and other respectable races) are not allowed to shop at certain stores because the African Americans have claimed these certain stores and brands as “their brands”. The only other people at my school that are allowed to wear these are the hispanics. If any Asian or Caucasian went to school dressed in the ensembles the African Americans wore we would be assualted either physically or verbally, Asking us who we think we are.
I am a Caucasian, therefore, by the African Americans, I am not allowed to watch Black Entertainment Television, speak a certain way (But if i speak the way I normally do I am teased for being white.), Listen to types of music, read certain magazines, or go to certain movies. African Americans say Caucasians run the media? I beg to differ.
African Americans love to tell me how it is my fault they went under slavery in historical times. I am a high school student. I was not there for slavery. My family was not even in the Americas when this was happening. Even the discrimination after slavery is not my fault. I am partly Irish and if I am recalling times correcting we were also discriminated against. I am part aboriginal, I believe we are also discriminated against and used as slaves. It is not only the Africans. The South Africans used East Indians as slaves. Do not try to tell me the world is only against African Americans.
I am not just speaking out against African Americans but they are the biggest factor in this race issue. I, myself am not racist. I do not judge on colour and if I do not like someone that just so happens to be of another race it is their own character flaws. They bring it on themselves.
-K.H. Nova Scotia, Canada.
Europeans are constantly discriminated against. It is tremendously obvious in education. Whites are kept out of graduate programs and internships in order to make room for less qualified minorities.