Dear White People,
Please enlighten me. At what point did the shoe move onto the other foot and turn you all into an oppressed racial minority? That seriously has to be the reason that you people keep insisting on pressing forth these lawsuits that state that any sort of racial preference in making any sort of decision regarding anything that the government touches is unfair. For you. And now that we’ve seen that the Supreme Court agrees with you, I can only assume that you will all continue on your quest to remedy the injustices done against you until every last reference to racially motivated screening or selection is stricken from this land.
Forgive my confusion, but things already seem to be pretty much in your favor racially. Thanks to a decades-long pattern of white-flight, selective gentrification, de facto segregation in housing, and ever more aggressive voting rights prosecution, you’ve already managed to widen the race gap in public education by leaps and bounds, even if it’s no longer on the books. Given all of this, how is that the whites are now the oppressed and on the wrong end of unfair laws and practices? Seriously, explain it to me. I like to think I’m a smart guy, but I can’t wrap my brain around this concept. Seems like you people keep holding all the cards. What’s left?
Maybe some of you are right, and this most recent decision will let this country move forward and solve its education problems in a different, more constructive way. Say, for instance, rewriting funding laws for public schools that ensure that poorer districts receive enough money so that they can spend the same amount of money per pupil that rich districts do by default? Oh that’s right, because that would oppress you, and you all would sue that once again, race is a factor in the public sphere.
But, seriously, in that case, who can we blame for that?
Sincerely yours,
The confused half-brown boy
I agree. White ppl have been doing thing backwards and underhandedly for quite some time. ESPECIALLY with school districts and such. Sure there’s rich non-white ppl in America, but let’s face it, most of them are white. But yet no matter what city your in, or what state, there’s always the “other side of the tracks” area. And schools are the same way, even ones in the same county you can tell where the “richies” live and where the “working class/middle man” lives. It’s really sad because no matter how smart a child is, lacking sufficient equipment and learning tools can still hinder them and thus cause them to not be prepared for college. Level playing ground for learning? I don’t think so. I see your point, and agree.
By the way, I’m white.