To the white straight male Christian bourgeoisie....

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I don't think any one of us feels "oppressed" but to say current laws and many parts of culture are not at least intended to be geared against us would be untrue...

[CLARENCE 2015!]

I don't think any one of us feels "oppressed" but to say current laws and many parts of culture are not at least intended to be geared against us would be untrue...

1. That was extremely moderate phrasing there, gramps.

2. You guys kinda oppressed everyone else for a few centuries, so it's time for White Guilt Mode.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

I don't think any one of us feels "oppressed" but to say current laws and many parts of culture are not at least intended to be geared against us would be untrue...

1. That was extremely moderate phrasing there, gramps.

2. You guys kinda oppressed everyone else for a few centuries, so it's time for White Guilt Mode.

 I- emphasis on me personally- never oppressed anyone. There are no slaveowners or conquistadors still alive that I Know of...so quit with the cuteness kid

[CLARENCE 2015!]

I don't think any one of us feels "oppressed" but to say current laws and many parts of culture are not at least intended to be geared against us would be untrue...

1. That was extremely moderate phrasing there, gramps.

2. You guys kinda oppressed everyone else for a few centuries, so it's time for White Guilt Mode.

 I- emphasis on me personally- never oppressed anyone. There are no slaveowners or conquistadors still alive that I Know of...so quit with the cuteness kid

According to my estimates, your generation still had segregated water fountains, maybe even schools, so WSMCBs shouldn't be crying discrimination when affirmative action is put in place, for example. It's not even as bad as what minorities have been put through at their hands.

Fella your father needs to take a belt to you with this attitude you have..."according to my estimates"...do you think I created those policies? I was 11 when Brown v Board was decided- do I get credit for ending segregation?
I served with blacks and we got along just fine...and this was during the time of the Civl Rights Act and when Dr. King was killed- a tough time for blacks and whites to be in close quarters together

 and to Nathan- I don't know what you mean socioeconomic status- I grew up sh**tting in an outhouse

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OK...laws and culture

Many of you mentioned affirmative action- this is clear. It may have been needed at first but is well past that time. I'll give you a few others- the way most divorces are handled that the wife cleans up house...child custody laws where the mother is nearly always prefered...rape cases where the female involved is often dishonest but the man gets trial by media

Culture- the type of cases that make headlines. Take Trayvon Martin and Eve Carson- a student at the University of North Carolina murdered by two young black men...both cases are tragedies but there is a clear difference in how they were reported- the Trayvon case is a put up as a national tragedy and a race issue with the President calling Trayvon's parnts...the Eve Carson murder was not given the same reatment as a tragedy and was covered as a random act of violence and quickly forgotten

 Culture has been movin in this direction for a long time... the Ten Commandments being displayed is a national outrage but any mention of needing to ban Sharia Law is treated as "bigoted" and "crazy"... Sotomayor can talka bout how the court needs a "wise Latina woman" but if I got nominated tomorrow and I said "we need a wise white man on the court" I would get called a bigot and pullled...

My problem is not with people being proud or in touch with their culture... blacks, Jews, gays, and others have suffered enormously and have come to be largely accepted and successful...but let's face it- at the risk of sounding like a douchebag to you folks- white men built the world we know. Charlemagne (an ancestor of mine) to the British monarchs to the settlers and conquistadors to our Foudning Fathers... folks like me did it. They did some bad things along the way- treatment of Native Americans and other native peoples is certainly one- but it seems the focus of our culture nowadays is on the bad they did and not the good...and the fact that I have to preface talking about the good by "at risk of sounding like a douchebag" shows my point