You are correct, reverse racism is a silly and fake term... it is just plain racism
When I was a young man I knew nothing of color. My father was in the service and as such I attended diverse schools from day 1. Up until my early 20's I thought racism was something we read about in the history books and up until recently I though all masons walked the level. My experience with Employee Relations showed me that racism is still here and going strong and the multiple experiences I have had since starting the petition has shown me that not all masons walk the level. Masons on both sides of the fence have said some pretty crazy stuff to me.
Americans with darker skin can be just as prejudice/racist as their lighter skinned brothers. Saying this is not possible means that you can call me whatever racial slur you feel like and prevent me from getting a promotion as the ER lady did simply because I have lighter skin than you. Is this fair? Through Affirmative Action and the many many laws in our country the table is tilted in favor of minorities. It is not my fault that the prison systems have a high majority of Black Americans than White Americans, here is a great article on the subject
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/05/08/honest-examination-of-race-n1588213
The entire point of my previous post was to lay out all my irritations. After taking Business Law, Advanced Business Law, & Human Resource Management I have seen just how much the tables are tilted in the favor of minorities. Did you know that companies can be 100% minority and they will not be fined BUT if a predominantly majority company is not as equally diverse as the surrounding community the IRS fines them? Did you know that if I walk in with my degree that cost 40K and a minority walks in with their free HS diploma they will be hired before me because of the tax benefits? It has nothing to do with "taking jobs from white men" ... that is silly, what is fair is fair and the laws are not fair yet I still hear people complaining about being put down because they are black, what more do you want?
Equality can never be achieved through inequality.
Giving a hand out and making things easy in the short term is great but doing it in the long term makes people weak. The very laws that were meant to help pick-up our minority brethren are now starting to hurt them. Lowering test scores required for minorities to get into college suggests they are not capable of making the same scores as their majority brothers and sisters... and that is stupid because most of my friends are far more intelligent than I. Lowering employment requirements suggests that my minority brothers are not as efficient or capable on the job as I am... and that is silly because the PHA brother sitting to my right does almost twice the work I do. Giving a hand out makes people weak and they begin to not only depend on these lowered requirements but demand even more from the system.
In my personal opinion Blacks and Whites are equal in everything other than skin tone and until we as a nation understand this we will never get over the past. As a matter of fact you should read Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration, he attacks the King of England over the crown forcing slavery upon the nation.
http://jeffersonpapers.princeton.ed...nal-rough-draught”-declaration-independence-0
"he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of
infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce; and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which
he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom
he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the
liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the
lives of another."