Comments on: Does Reverse Discrimination Exist?

By: Luke Visconti

Luke Visconti — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:14:02 +0000

My statement is my opinion based on my experience—and the works of people like Charles Murray and Samuel Huntington, and the popularity of folks like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and the evidence of the lack of representation in positions of power (corporate, government, religious).

I agree that my generation didn’t do a great job in resolving these issues. Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:28:25 +0000

“I’d say that many (most?) white people think that most people of color in positions of authority are not qualified to hold them.”

You have nothing to back that up this overwhelmingly instigating and offensive claim. You claim reverse discrimination doesn’t exist while at the same time prejudging (most?) whites to dismiss any blacks who hold authority.

These discrimination argumenents make my head hurt. Nothing will get resolved if both sides perpetually take ignorant shits all over the place.

Im an 18 year old white first time voter who voted for Obama. You know why? Because he spews much less bulls— then romney. I don’t trust him, but I trust him way more then Romney or bush. It’s not because he’s black, I don’t trust him because he’s a politician. That’s what he is right?

My generation is trying to make up for all the older generations slack, but we can’t do it with all these old heads telling us racism is bad while throwing gas on the fire.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:16:14 +0000

I work with 90 percent majority hispanic co workers in new mexico, It is blue collar work and I have received slights against my “WASP “being, (t(heir words not mine), for 18 years from state and local government employees with supervisors watching and approving, sometimes threatening violence against me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:20:58 +0000

I really believe that racial discrimination is exists everywhere in the world. Not only in America, and I may say that America is more better than other countries.Let me give you a real examples of discrimination in Sudan. When you hear civil Western Sudan ( DARFUR) War between Muslims.Africans Muslims in the west Sudan and the Arabs Muslims in the North. The Arabs in the North do not want people in Darfur to share them in the central Government in Khartoum.This is a racism. a racial discrimination aganist peple in Darfur.So racial discrimination is exists everywhere in the world. many people are to come America. More because, they are suffering from discrimination and political issues and religious.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:55:11 +0000

There is nothing “reverse” about descrimination! It is either “descrimination” or not!! I believe, diversity programs promote descrimination by mandating to employers and schools that they must hire/admit and prove they do, a certain number of specific nonwhite people. Employers should be “free” to hire whoever is best qualified and remove the “race equation” from the hiring process. THat is descrimination!!!
I also do not appreciate my tax dollars being given to special interest groups that are based on race. What is that? Why don’t we consider that descriminatory? I pray that we stop all the descrimination and spending to promote it and get back to basics, the “United States of America” not the Diverse States of America…..all our ancestors originated elsewhere…we must unite, not divide.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:11:00 +0000

Right is Right, and this appears to be unfair. All of the firefighters took the test. To deny someone a promotion because the others candidates did not receive comparable scores is not fair. This is not the message that needs to be out there. Regardless of the race of the individual who passed the test, if the test was deemed to be fair, then the person who passed should not be penalized because of his or her race. I am African American and I am very uneasy about this. We fought too long and too hard to turn this around and do the same thing to others. We want to be treated equally and fairly in these situations and nothing positive can be gained from doing this. Let’s really look at this. Too many people fought and dies in the struggle for civil rights, affirmative action, and equality, and as tempting as it may be to return the terrible crushing humilation and denials that people of color have been subjected to in testing, promotion, at the hands of those who have the power to use nepotism, chronyism, legacy appointments, promtions and unfair opportunities, this dishonors our long hard fight and the memory of Medgar Evers, Dr. King, and so many other unnamed and unknown advocates.