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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ladies and gentleman please...please...try and understand...

These are very different times nowadays and white people are frightened because they now find themselves in a very unfamiliar position.

For the first time since they stepped foot on this continent and claimed it as their own based on the arrogant assumption that they were somehow superior to the indigenous peoples already here, white people are now forced to face the frightening reality that the spoils and successes they automatically assumed because of their European ancestry are no more and the "golden ticket" to power and privilege they unequivocally presumed because of their pale skin isn't worth shit in the 21st century.

So ladies and gentleman please...please...show some sympathy and compassion for white people.  This is going to be a difficult adjustment for many of them.[/quote]

The white people you see today are not the same people who "stepped foot on this continent and claimed it as their own."  [/quote]

PP may have said it in a somewhat obnoxious way, but she is right in a sense.

Whether they want to acknowledge it or not, Whites have a leg up in hiring AND admissions decisions.  While Whites today did not claim the continent as their own, it would be naive to say that the system does not currently benefit them.  For decades and even today, Whites have benefitted from formal and informal patronage schemes.  Hiring frat brothers, guys they went to school with, alums from the same schools, people from their church, the nephew of a friend, etc.  We ALL know a White person who got a job because of a connection with the powers that be.  Now, minorities and women have developed a similar, albeit less established, patronage and mentoring system based on the same principles.  SOME Whites are up in arms about it.  Add that to the arrogance and entitlement that SOME Whites have that makes it hard for them to fathom that any minority may be more qualified and you get these types of threads.  Minorities and women have taken the same tactics used to block their progress and leveraged them to benefit themselves and protégés.  Now it is wrong and sad?  What was it 20 years ago when the White division head would give a management job to his college pal’s son even though the son was an idiot (yes, personal baggage, LOL)?

When it comes to preferences and the like, SOME White people only get riled up when they cannot benefit or it works against them.  Now we hear how it is wrong to use discrimination to remedy past systemic discrimination.  When minorities and women complain about the same thing working in reverse, it is a completely different narrative.  We are making excuses, looking for a scapegoat or playing the race card.

Instead of speculating and trying to find a scapegoat, OP should look at herself and her resume to make sure that he is presenting as well as the folks she is competing with. 
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