"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
In an article posted by ACC Government, the author wrote a commentary on an article that proposed whites will soon be a minority in the U.S. as shown by population projections by race. The author's response to this is that it doesn't matter what the majority race is, but focusing on race like theses studies do is what makes race an issue. He then goes on to disapprove of affirmative action, mainly because of it's reverse discrimination.
ReplyDeleteWith scholarships and affirmative action, the main criteria for those scholarships are still financial need. I am considered a minority and am a female, but do to my lack of financial need I still constantly get denied grants and scholarships. I personally, being of half Austrian and half Mexican decent, believe eventually there will be no majority race. I grew up with people who were almost all of mixed races, and if they go on to reproduce with people of a full decent, or people of full decent reproduce with other races that are of full decent, we are looking at a very diverse future. Not one with Hispanics as a majority and whites as a minority, but one with people being part white, part Hispanic, part black, etc..
In the article posted by ACC Government, the author wrote a commentary about whites being oppressed. He also used pathos the majority of the time that wrote the article but their was a little bit of ethos in the article. While reading the blog it starts to make the reader think about subjects that they previously don't consider important.Also the thing about financial aid be given to the minority is certainly true for certain females and for some races.
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