You are so right chakalate, I almost forgot. We are sooooo privileged to be white. Everything is given to white people for free, heck I don't even have to work and I can be more successful than the black folk... yeah, whatever...

Have you ever looked inside a scholarship book? I did, I looked through many when I entered college and found that there really wasn't much available for white males, regardless of financial need or merit. The few scholarships that are available to white people are for women and I think those may have been about 10% of the scholarships in the books I read. Every day there is a new scholarship program announced on the news for low-income blacks or latinos, but never for low-income whites. Why? Because low-incomes whites do not need help? Oh, that's right, I forgot again, the low-income whites go to college for free, even if they are terrible students, just because of white privilege.

To get government jobs test score requirements for minorities are lowered. That means I MUST work harder and MUST score higher than a black person to be afforded an equal chance of getting the job. And then comes the affirmative action / quota requirements... even if my scores are high enough to surpass the lower requirement for minorities which is considered to be equal to a higher score by me, there is still a great possibility that a lower scoring minority will get the job instead of me because the government also has to fill their quotas. It is very unequal and makes no sense to give special privileges to people because of their color or minority status. I feel the most qualified should always get the job, whether they are black, white or any other color.

I work in private industry where I figured I would not have to deal with these types of special privileges being given to people because of their race. I was sure that my success in this company would be judged solely on merit, with new jobs & promotions going to the most deserving. Wrong. Up until last year this company made a point to hire the most qualified people who would help to guarantee long term success... last year a government agency came in and told management that if more minority workers were not hired that the company would face very stiff penalties. We are a mid-size company and already had many (highly skilled) minority workers, black, latino, asian, women, etc. But it wasn't enough. Now we are facing a real problem. Currently we have no real ability to hire candidates based on who is most qualified. Not enough qualified minority job candidates apply, and we are now hiring people who have no clue how to do the jobs, just so we do not face the legal penalties. With quality control, we determined that the recent unqualified hires performed way below production standards & much below the average (with the same training). This is not to say that we did not hire qualified minorities, this past year we have hired several very productive minority workers who we are very happy with. The problem is that we still have to hire unqualified minority workers to meet quota (the gov't may say there is no quota system, but there is) over more qualified whites all the time (I'm not saying that all whites that apply are more qualified). And now we have a new problem, we cannot justify firing white workers who are below production standards (who would have been fired a year ago) because of the fact that there are minority workers with a much lower production rate who we cannot get rid of due to the quota system. Company morale is getting low. Many of the workers who have been here for several years (including the minorities) are now complaining that the new minority hires are taking advantage of the fact that they cannot be fired because of the situation with the government quota. From just over a year ago: average production per worker is much lower, profits are lower, competition is slowly taking over our market share, our budget for raises & additional worker benefits is lowering as a result, etc.

So, chakalate, don't deceive others by saying white people have so much priviledge. Take it from someone who is there. The competitive scales are definitely NOT in the favor of whites.