For the first time ever, a major poll shows that a majority of white Americans believe that whites are discriminated against in America today. The poll’s findings, while not being groundbreaking, do show that racial consciousness among whites is on the rise.
In the spirit of enlightening some of the melanin-deprived, here are five ways that Americans are discriminated against on a daily basis while living out their privileged existences in America.
5. Affirmative Action
This was the one item on the list that was referenced in NPR’s poll and shows a concrete example of how whites are discriminated against in American society.
According to NCLS, affirmative action covers policies “in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society.”
While this technically can benefit whites (for instance, white first-generation college students), it is more routinely used to benefit everyone except whites (and Asians) as historically low-performing racial minorities are the most common affirmative action beneficiary.
For this reason, the under-performing son of a black millionaire may be admitted to a university over a poor white student of similar capabilities. In the view of affirmative action advocates, the poor white student, in this scenario, is more systemically privileged than the black millionaire due to his skin’s tragic lack of melanin.
The inherent absurdity of this…