Re: Racism Towards Whites
Why are liberals so much against bringing up the racism and hate crimes that White people endure? Why are liberals so quick to say that White people are privileged when 1/5 White kids in America goes to bed hungry? When White males are overlooked for a job? When colleges take in non Whites, water down the curriculum, to make a status quo? (not to say there aren't intelligent non Whites, there certainly are).
First, my bona fides. I'm white, retired Navy, and was raised in the MS Delta. I was strongly conservative for many years - frankly, I've yet to see any whites from where I grew up who weren't strongly conservative. I was certainly one of them. I also remember one time I almost lost my career in the Navy thanks to a black racist. But my time in the Navy forced me to unlearn so much I'd been taught in my strongly-conservative youth - including my own racism.
That said, the reason why whites don't get why it seems that there's so much more attention to racism against blacks (and other minorities) than to the racism against whites...is because the racism against minorities in America IS WORSE than the racism against whites.
Read that again, guy - the racism against whites in America is not nearly so bad as it is against minorities and especially blacks.
You asked, "Why?" And I'll tell you why - it's because we whites are (currently) on top, socially and economically...and because we have the power, the racism we commit is more effective (has a greater effect) than the racism committed by the minorities. And this is NOT - repeat, NOT - only a 'white' people thing, nor is it a matter of race at all. ANY group - whether racial, religious, political, ethnic, social, economic - that is on top will do what it can (if in different ways, whether good or bad) to stay on top, and will look down on those who are not a part of the group on top.
In other words, in the global game of "King of the Hill", the group on top looks down on those who aren't a part of that group.
But I digress - let's get back to races. The racism by the race on top has a greater effect than the racism by the other races...and those who belong to the race on top tend to react with anger or even violence at any threat to their status...whereas the race(s) who are not on top bear the brunt of the more effective racism by the race on top - and they can't help but see how wrong it is, just as a victim of a bully sees how wrong the bullying is...and as a result they tend to be less racist. I saw this firsthand when I went to an all-white school in a 71%-black county (Indianola Academy in Sunflower County, MS), and then the very next year went to a public school in the same county where only 20 of us were white out of a student body of 480. I saw (and participated in) a LOT of racism in the all-white school...but saw very little racism in the 95% black school.
BUT THIS ISN'T A WHITE OR A BLACK THING. I put that in caps to get your attention. My point is proven not just by our experience here in America, but in nearly every nation in the world, by the experiences of the Ainu in Japan, the Tibetans in China, the Roma (derisively called 'gypsies') in Europe, the Hakka and Uighurs in China, the Jews in much of the Middle East, the Palestinians in Israel...and the Hutus in Rwanda.
In almost all of the above cases, the less-powerful races and ethnicities face strong discrimination even when their rights are protected by the government and given what we Americans would call Affirmative Action - heck, in China, the Tibetans are the only ones who are allowed to have more than one child! But in every case, the dominant race or ethnicity as a whole still does what it can to stay on top.
I emphasized the Hutus in Rwanda - they may be of the same race, but they're a fairly distinct ethnicity. The more powerful Tutsis had been the moneyed and powerful (by local standards) for generations...until one day the powderkeg's fuse got lit and there was that genocide in Rwanda in the early 1990's. But this is the EXCEPTION to the rule - in almost all cases, it's the more powerful race/ethnicity/religion/political group that does what it can to keep under its boot those that it sees as a threat to its supremacy.
Whatever racism against you or your fellow whites you may have heard about or even experienced, it does not come close to what blacks experience - what we do to them IS worse than what they do to us, because we are socially and economically more powerful. But if history teaches anything, it's that the great wheel turns, and those who are on top today will someday not be on top. Just something to remember....