[Rudey]

Oh yes, it was only blacks that were not farely compensated for their labors and so people only benefit from their labors. Well since you're so freely talking about where you've benefitted from, I'd like a very large check made out to me.

-Rudey

Originally posted by sugar and spice
No time to do searches yet you still have time to write 5-paragraph responses on GC? Bwahaha. If you really cared, you could google "affirmative action statistics" and come up with a handful of studies on who benefits from AA in half the time it probably took you to type out that post. Although, granted, if you're looking for a study that backs up the claim that white men are more discriminated against in the work world than, say, women of color, you'll probably be looking a mighty long time.

As for the rest of your post, just because your ancestors had nothing to do with slavery (mine didn't either) doesn't mean you haven't benefitted from slavery. Heck, even if your ancestors were all abolitionists -- even if you're descended from Abe Lincoln! -- you've still benefitted from slavery in some way. Plus, discrimination in this country extends beyond the bounds of slavery. Some people act like as soon as slavery was over, race issues in this country were automatically fixed. Jim Crow laws, lynchings, legalized segregation (and NOT "separate but equal," either) -- in some parts of the country these all existed until almost 100 years after slavery's end.