Sympathy For the Devil
“Hello everyone, and welcome back to B.E.T. (Black Entertainment Television), the channel specifically made for black people.” Is this right? How can people make a television channel just for their own race? Well, in many ways segregating one race from others is a very normal thing. Look at an old sitcom made before the affirmative action law was put into place (the Affirmative Action Law stated that perspective employees, no matter what race, color, sex, creed or national origin could be discriminated when applying for a job) in 1965 to help minorities receive more jobs and better pay (Pioneer 1). Before the affirmative action law was put into place, on television there were only Caucasian actors and news anchors. Also before the Affirmative Action Law, schools were segregated between Caucasians and other minorities, minorities made up most of the lower class, and most every employer, whether they admitted it or not would hire a Caucasian instead a minority, no matter what the credentials; which was completely out of line. So if anything, by being oppressed in almost every aspect of there lives, minorities almost have the right to be racist towards Caucasians. But does that make it correct?
At the University of Michigan Law School, the way that they accept students is a point system. For the points that they give to African Americans and Latinos, Caucasians receive none. This makes it much easier for minorities to be accepted to the law school than Caucasians even if the minorities grades are lower the Caucasians (Pioneer 1). It is almost like the universities have a quota and although the Caucasian students may have better grades and test scores, the schools must fill their quotas, and the school says acceptance is due to the Affirmative Action Law. Racism surrounds everyone, just as it has surrounded all minorities since our nation’s existence. But now there is a new type of racism, one that is unusual, yet practical. Reverse racism is this type. Reverse racism is directed from minorities ultimately towards Caucasians. Since this country was created, minorities have been beaten, spit on, and treated as if they were nothing. Slavery was as common as football on Sundays in the fall, before it was abolished. Everyone knew about it, but few cared except for the slaves, who were real people, with real thoughts and feelings inside. I have already experienced firsthand reverse discrimination since I have been in college. On the very first day of school, I met a Latino student and we began to talk about how he was making it through college. He proceeded to tell me that he had a personal tutor every day of the week that would help him on school work whenever necessary, at no cost to him. He also told me that the school was paying for him to live and attend college, and then he started to laugh. At first I was mad; I found none of this funny. I’ve worked construction for the past three years and I still had to take a loan so I could attend college. But then I started to think of the Latino’s situation, sure he could be just free loading and never had to do anything to
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