Thursday, April 8, 2010

Racism in our daily lives 3

In the April 5th edition of The Oregonian, on the front page, is an article titled "Western Oregon U. a model for its Latino graduation rate."
...The Monmouth college's support programs for Latino students, she said, "are definitely key to my success:

They also help explain why the college completion rate at Western, unlike at most colleges and universities in Oregon and the nation, is higher for Latino students than for their white peers.  Nearly 49 percent of the Latino students at Western graduate within six years, compared with 45 percent of white classmates, according to a study last month by the American Enterprise Institute...

Universities are focusing more on Latino students because they are the fastest-growing population group in the nation.  In Oregon, one in five public school students is Latino, and the number is growing...

Even with financial aid, tuition and other costs continue to be a major barrier to college for Latino students, said Martha Balshem, a PSU sociology professor and a special assistant to the president for diversity...

There are several questions that need to be asked here.  Firstly, if the Latino graduation rate is higher than the white graduation rate, at this university, then why are there no programs to help white students?  Secondly, if it is logical to place an emphasis on Latino students "because they are the fastest-growing population group in the nation" then surely it would be just as logical to place emphasis on white students because "they are the largest population group in the nation" or because this nation was founded upon the culture these white students are heirs to."  Thirdly, if financial barriers are a prime motivation to render more aid to Latino students, why not cut to the chase and simply focus on low-income students of whatever ethnicity?

The answer to all three of these questions is systematic, and pervasive, racism against whites in America.  It is time we all recognize this and be more vocal about it - not only on the web but also in our real lives.

13 comments:

  1. Portland bus driverApril 8, 2010 at 1:34 PM

    The following is directly from my union contract. No union member I have spoken with was aware of this policy, and is shocked when they see how it is worded. My union has a black and a Hispanic caucus, maybe I'll start a white caucus.

    Par. 5. Affirmative Action
    a. The District and the Association recognize a common
    commitment to the equality of opportunity for all.
    Therefore, the Association will support the District’s
    efforts to implement a policy and practice of Affirmative
    Action to correct the effects of any past discrimination
    and to provide the fullest opportunity for minorities and
    females to participate in all levels of employment with the
    District.

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  2. Blatent racism through and through. One good thing about a depression that we will soon suffer through is that there will not be funds for this garbage. People will be doing their best to survive, and when that happens inequality will not be tolerated. You want to see 200 million Whites lose their mind over diversity? Well its coming.

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  3. Or they will continue to fund these programs and defund Social Security so we have to work until we're 80 (dead), and they will stop paving roads and allow our military to decay and pretty soon, well pretty soon we're a 3rd world country! Mission accomplished!

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  4. When I picture the coming depression, I look back to the great depression, yet things were much different back then than they are now. For starters I believe that 70% of people lived in rural areas, whereas today we have 70% living in cities. Therefore, starvation will be a massive problem, and then along with that will be the spread of diseases. We will witness the onset of the feared pandemic that the media has been hyping about for years.

    I do not look forward to the upheavals that our society will go through. Fifty years ago things seemed undercontrol, but with all the leftist changes of the 60s, which by the way also greatly affected Europe at the same time, we are becoming unglued.

    The west is losing its ability to manufacture, we have more dept than the ability to pay back. Heck some factories in China are even being shut down. So I believe whatever happens, nothing will ever be the same again. I think the past 50 years of marxist ideology is not only the motion of cultural suicide, but a major contributor to our death knell as a people.

    Of course, the prime contributer has from the beggining been where the debt is coming from. Without that, we wouldn't be in such bad shape. Trace the money, and you will find the answers that your looking for.

    Even the knowledge of how central banking works, is enough justification to realise that things were set in motion long before the 60s. There is no way out, save shutting it down, and no one is able to do that without losing their life over it.

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  5. @Ryan

    Truth is no one knows whats going to happen until it happens.

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  6. Why not cut to the chase and simply focus on low-income students of whatever ethnicity?

    Because whites don't count, remember? Whites, regardless of actual background, face absolutely no problems in life, are ten times as privileged as multimillionaire non-white comedians, and all contribute to oppression.

    Sarcasm off.

    Anti-racism has absolutely nothing to do with ensuring actual equality, but rather insists on punishing younger generations of whites. Of course, the anti-racist white elites who advocate certain programs don't actually have to make any sacrifices themselves. Average whites like you and me are the cannon fodder. To clarify, I don't believe that whites are oppressed citizens or that we've lost all of our advantages, but we're getting closer.

    http://vdare.com/roberts/whams.htm

    For the record, I don't agree with everything vdare says. However, I think Paul Craig Roberts nailed it.

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  7. Hey Jew Among You, I think a post on the virtues of the west is in order. I just stumbled across one the idiotic screeds of Tim Wise (I know, surprising, isn't it?), where he basically asserted that sexism, class inequality, and racism are uniquely European.

    http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/palepathology.html

    The funny thing about this clown is that despite claiming that "whiteness" is abhorrent partially due to its subversion of rich European cultures, he then reaches all the way back to ancient times in order to disparage the thinking of the Greeks and Romans. In addition to disparaging whites, he doesn't have a high opinion of European culture either, which reflects his dishonesty.

    He claims that dualistic European thought is responsible for Capitalism, sexism, and other forms of inequality. He bases his assertion on the works of two radical black Afrocentric scholars. He acts as if all non-whites were living in communal bliss until we wicked whites came along.

    Perhaps this fool has never heard of Confucianism, Hammurabi's Code, the caste system in India, or other systems of inequality.

    I know this is slightly off topic, but I think a post that defends the qualities of the west is sorely needed. After all, why should whites want to fight for their people if their civilization isn't worth defending?

    Something to think about.

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  8. Very nice! It seems to me, however, that the West converted from an orthodoxy based on Christianity to an orthodoxy based on leftism all too quickly. The political correctness of the left is almost as mind-numbing as the Islam of the East. The short time period in between might represent an anomaly rather than an expression of true "Western culture". Just being a devil's advocate here.

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  9. No, I think you are right. These freedoms that we have enjoyed have allowed people to exist inside them who wish to change and subvert them. Only a real powerful watch dog,(Which was supposed to be the media, and patriotic government leaders) could keep such a system in place. However, greed has gotten to us.

    I have been cruising blogs like this off and on for the past year and a half. One thing that always gets me is that people only seem to see that this diversity business is the whole problem, when in reality it is only part of the problem. It is more or less like a symptom, and not the disease itself.

    Diversity didn't sell off all of our industries. Diversity didn't get us into more dept than what we could ever pay for. Diversity didn't put marxists into place at all our learning centers. Diversity didn't change our spiritual leaders into grovelling cowards. Diversity didn't create the feminist movement. And diversity didn't elevate corporations to being more important that the people they prey upon.

    When looking at the diversity issue we face today, you are only seeing part of the problem. What you are seeing is social engineering, and you are not seeing the puppet masters themselves.

    Does anyone really believe that there is an underground communist movement to change everything in the West? With such a long reach that without any kind of backing people just decided they were going to become communists one day out of the blue? Where did it come from? Communism hardly exists in any form outside of Red China.

    Really you guys need to dig deeper, so deep you will be labeled a conspiracy freak, and even then you aren't deep enough. There are real concrete reasons for the things that we are experiencing, yet to talk about it I suppose i'll have to start my own blog one day.

    The Christians had it right about usury, because everything we are experiencing today stems from us giving up our financial power. Human life on earth for the past millenia seems to be all about the pursuit of money. When you control the flow of money, you control human life. Money is what is being used against us, not diversity.

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  10. Sorry, Edit buttons spoil me. I wish you had one, if you did i'd make perfect posts :)

    I meant to say:

    I have been cruising blogs like this off and on for the past year and a half. One thing that always gets me is that people only seem to see that this diversity business is the whole problem, when in reality it is only part of the problem. It is more or less like a symptom, and not the disease itself.

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  11. What is White? and What is Latino?

    I've met Latinos with blonde hair and blue eyes and Italians who are considered White with dark hair and skin.

    Many Latinos are descended from Sephardic Jews.

    Get your facts straight. If you can take this from an african American.

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  12. Having travelled to Latin America myself, I know that there are Hispanics of all races. I've encountered a good number of white Hispanics in Mexico.

    However, here in the United States, most Hispanics are brown mestizos, which in a way makes them their own race. So while they aren't technically a race, there aren't exactly a ton of Hispanics with blonde hair and blue eyes (at least in this country).

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  13. What Bay Area Guy said. Also a good mental experiment would be to ask what what people's reaction would be to a person who flatly said "I don't like Hispanics. I won't buy from them, hire them or befriend them". Would not such a person be described as a "racist"? While we're at it, there are "blacks" who have blond hair, light eyes and light skin too. So would it be fair to say that blacks are not a race? As a matter of fact, "black" (in the American social sense) indeed might not be a race. For this reason, we should probably be careful to specify context when speaking of ethnic groups and race; there can be much confusion otherwise.

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