"Are whites racially oppressed?" The quote itself caught me off-guard, especially when it was the first line of the article I chose, but when I began to read I realized that it was just a poor choice of words to break the ice into a very interesting article. In this piece, Esther J. Cepeda discusses the shift that is in process that will bring the whites to be the minorities in our country, of course Cepeda goes on to retract the use of the quote, it then states that many people are beginning to worry about what could happen as a result. Agreeing with the author, I do believe that there is change to come, but I want to go ahead and jump in stating that I think it's a little sad that in the time we live in there are still people worrying about the racial stature in our country. To be honest, i don't exactly care what color someone is or how many of them are out there...and I dont think everyone else should be as worried either. Another good point made in this article is that scholarships are countlessly being given out to women and minorites, this is another fact that grinds my gears. I think that people are expressing way too much emphasis on race, this "affirmative action" is basically bringing everything the civil rights movement fought for and bringing it down to square one. I personally believe that the faster everyone stops putting pointless acknowledgement into the color of someone's skin or whether or not they've got an Adam's apple, the sooner we can all just accept everyone as equals.
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/cepeda-face-up-to-the-changes-in-america-1312581.html
