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Hi All:
Food for thought on this Tuesday evening. I was reading though and old copy of Time Magazine today when I came across one of those little statiscal FACTOID boxes they use which was giving us as readers statistics on the average salaries of college educated women in America. The findings were very interesting, yet disturbing. The study showed that Asian American college educated women make and average of $43,000 a year, while college educated African American women make and average of about $41,000 a year. Meanwhile, college educated white (WASP) women bring home and average of only $37,000 a year.
I am wondering here, what the cause of such a drastic salary differenc is? In being politically correct, in trying not to be accused of being prejudiced, has Corporate America merely traded in one prejudice, one societal disparity for another, with white women caught in the cross fire as it were?
Hey, I have an opinion here. I personally don't buy the argument of reverse discrimination. I don't believe that affirmative action has set anything in place where white people are actively and sytematically discriminated against. 
]. I personally believe (and feel free to disagree) that reverse discrimination arguments flirt around the issue of white privilege, without ever actually acknowledging it as a real issue. As long as the totem pole reads White male, White female, with minorities somewhere below, it's all good and folks aren't up in arms about the issue. I also guess that the article didn't present facts and figures about White men's sal
Dang, where is the rest of my response? lol. I'm gonna try this again.
Hey, I have an opinion here. I personally don't buy the argument of reverse discrimination. I don't believe that affirmative action has set anything in place where white people are actively and sytematically discriminated against. ]. I personally believe (and feel free to disagree) that reverse discrimination arguments flirt around the issue of white privilege, without ever actually acknowledging it as a real issue. As long as the totem pole reads White male, White female, with minorities somewhere below, it's all good and folks aren't up in arms about the issue. I also guess that the article didn't present facts and figures about White men's sal
Ooops, I guess my post was too long. lol. Here's the continuation of my comments....
One more time....
I don't believe that stat or the reverse racism bullshit, lets see that stat 
Libra:
I'm still not convinced that affirmative action is making the kind of epic negative impact that some arguments claim. If so, then I wanna see some actual stats. I wanna see these dramatic increases in wealth and power for minorities, unemployment, and dramatic societal whole-scale decrease in wealth and power, unemployment for Whites. The statistics just don't support that kind of argument at all. There is no way that affirmative action adds up to the sheer devastation of reverse racism that folks are claiming. There is no way.
As for the example about subsidized programs for childhood abuse for male victims, this is like comparing apples and oranges. I'm in psychology so I know that males victims of abuse are a lot less likely to speak out and seek out support, which results in the skewed distribution of services. There are organization that would love for male survivors to come forward, but the numbers aren't there. Even still, there are programs that specifically address that issue BECAUSE it is an underrepresented population in need of services.
Even still, Dream Dragon, I beg to differ. All of your examples talk about individualized case-by-case examples that *may* or *may not* actually occur though the *possibility* exists at one time or another. We don't know the frequency of occurrence. Even still I would argue that it does not occur to the extent of systematically discriminating against Whites and massively having a negative impact on the Whites. Once again, the stats still don't speak to this massive "unfairness." They don't. Even still -- what? -- we're crying massive levels of reverse racism over whatever % of jobs that minorities have in Corporate America? The *maybe* 10-15% of minority populations on college campuses? One or two seats in a class of 30 in law school at one school in America? Come on now! What's the alternative? I admit that the system is flawed in some instances. No system is gonna be equitable to all people. That's a fact. As long as White folks are getting all of their top picks in jobs and universities, it's all good, right? I guess since we're all PC now everything is on an equal playing feel. No way. For every stat that talks about reverse discrimination (whether or not that is truly what is going on or what folks are telling themselves that it is), I can quote more stats that speak to the pervasive effects of racism and discrimination in America (whether overt as in past days or more covert as we operate under the shield of PC). What is the answer then?
Libra:
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