OldLady
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You have a point. I've felt discrimination from Native Americans and blacks, Hispanics not so much but maybe that's just luck of the draw. However, the discrimination I've encountered hasn't been from minority members who were above me on the food chain. I've only had one black supervisor/boss in my whole varied working life, and she and I were both women in a business that was 95% men and we got along great.Poor Bernie. He really has no idea how to deal with minorities. He means well, but....
It's true white people don't have to worry about prejudice based on their skin color, but lots of white people know what it's like to be hopelessly poor. It's not about foodstamps; it's about not being able to keep a roof over your head, not being able to keep the water running or the electric on or pay the $2 per bag to take your trash to the dump. It's about not being able to afford a bottle of shampoo and not being able to put enough gas in the car to get to a doctor's appointment. It's about picking up empty cans and bottles on the side of the road in order to buy a second hand pair of boots for your kids from Goodwill. It happens to white people, too.
Foodstamps my ass.
--It's true white people don't have to worry about prejudice based on their skin color--
How true is this statement? How do we know that a white person is being discriminated against. White people kind of walk around with a kind of arrogance that no one discriminates against them and then they see that their hispanic boss won't promote them. He then begins to notice that most of the employees are not white despite the fact that white people apply for the job. How do you know that you are not being discriminated against simply because you assume the whole world is a fair place and no one discriminates against you because you are white.
The truth, though, is that minorities would not be hating on us if they had not been treated unfairly in the past. I know you don't agree with this, but it is where it starts. Collectively, we reap what we sow, and the hatred and anger of BLM is what the white majority has earned -- maybe not you or me as individuals, maybe not even our own generation, but we are being as unfairly lumped together as some people unfairly lump all blacks or Hispanics together.