Reverse Racism

This passage was very enlightening in an "in-your-face" kind of way. At first I thought "this is the twenty-first century, racism doesn't happen that much anymore." As I read on I realized that it happens just as much as it did post-Civil War, except not as blatantly. We all have stereotypes for all the different races, even our own. Does that make us bad people, no; it makes us human. It does become bad if we act on them and discriminate on the basis of race alone.

With that in mind, is affirmative action a type of discrimination? I don't believe so. Minorities have been discriminated against for centuries, somewhere along the line they got screwed for being born into a certain race that whites have determined "inferior". It's because of this that most people living in poverty are minorities, and because they live in poverty they do not have access to quality schooling and jobs that most whites have. They do not score as well on standardized tests because they have an insufficient academic background as a result of their economic status. So if you think about it, minorities are discriminated against in an indirect way when it comes to getting into college and getting a job. So when whites complain that affirmative action is "reverse racism" we should blame our ancestors for treating other races so poorly. If they hadn't, maybe the playing field today would be truly "level".