Why Do Some Whites Say Affirmative Action Hurts Them?

Published May 17, 2010

Researchers at the “Journal of Blacks in Higher Education” found that if race-neutral policies were in effect at the most selective schools, the chances of a white student being accepted would rise from 25 percent to 26.5 percent—a statistically insignificant change. This means more than 98 percent of the white students who were rejected from these elite institutions would still be rejected.

America has a long history of institutional White supremacism, going back 400 years, that pervades every aspect of our country – the government, education, business, housing ect.

And ALL White people benefit from it – even the poorest Whites.

Poor Whites are far less likely to be arrested than poor Blacks or Latinos, even though the White poor commit just as much crime as the minority poor (or more if you include crank/crystal meth/methamphetamine related crimes – the White poor have a monopoly on that!)
AFFIRMATIVE PROTECTS WOMEN, THE DISABLED AND VETERANS TOO! NOT JUST RACES!

Poor Whites also have job opportunities that poor Blacks and Latinos don’t, due to family connections and the fact that most businesses are White owned and White bosses prefer to hire White workers whenever and wherever possible.

Class based affirmative action is nonsense, since it ignores the realilty of the White economic privilige that even the poorest of Whites enjoy.

Why Do Some Whites Say Affirmative Action Hurts Them?

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