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Originally Posted by Hugh R

DAR,

Not me. I'm saying I got where I am without any of those programs. There is a difference. I couldn't get a PELL Grant or any of those loans, I got passed over for at least one governmental job promotion explicitly because I was a white male. I ended up leaving when I was flat out told that the gubmit agency I worked for was under a mandate to promote more women and "people of color".

And what's with this "People of Color" crap. Everyone knows it a code phrase that means everyone except Cracker! And Honkey isn't a color? Also, that's just bad grammar, it's a dangling modifier. You wouldn't say "People of Blind" or People of Fat" would you? You'd say Fat People or Blind People.


I'm not going to be getting one of those stupid tax "rebates" even though I actually paid those taxes and many, many more times what those "rebates" will be. I never took unemployment, welfare, aid to families with dependent children, food stamps, Home Heating Oil Tax Credits, Earned income tax credit (snort, NOT, its a subsidy). I DID and DO pay Alternative Minimum Tax, every God Damn year!

If anything makes me angry (actually, I'm not, just a little fed up with the crap), it's the attitude of some people that because they aren't doing as well as they'd like, it must be someone else's (read, my) fault.

So, how about getting the attitude that things aren't equal from someone who also didn't go on welfare/unemployment, pays AMT every year, isn't going to get a tax rebate etc.? Oh, and try and get any special treatment because you have Chinese blood in you at a University (Eg/Cal-Berkeley). Back in the 80's, white women got more special treatment than chinese males.

What Todd has quoted is something simply to "man up" to. Why can't folks do that? And this is not directed at individuals. The past and present relationships/inequalities are things that the race of caucasians has done to other races and some of their own race.