Whites Believe They Are Victims of Racism More Often Than Blacks | Tufts Now.

Unashamedly stole this from Reddit.  I’ll leave it to you to read the popular press version of the article and form your own opinion.  In short, white Americans rate the early 2000’s as the tipping point for the anti-white bias becoming worse than the anti-black bias.  Here’s the academic manuscript for those of you who want the nitty-gritty details about methodology and background for the study.

Here’s a excerpt from the manuscript I find intriguing:  “We suggest that these trends epitomize a more general mindset gaining traction among Whites in contemporary America: the notion that Whites have replaced Blacks as the primary victims of discrimination.  This emerging perspective is particularly notable because by nearly any metric—from employment to police treatment, loan rates to education—statistics continue to indicate drastically poorer outcomes for Black than White Americans.”

As a non-white and non-black minority, I’d like to state my opinion that we do not live in a post-racial America.  The study took a nationwide sample, and though many of my readers are in the generally liberal northeast and we are overall very tolerant of other races and cultures, racism still very much exists in all parts of the country.  Indians are admittedly some of the most racist people I’ve ever met and there are plenty of bigots living in suburbian subdivisions all over Pennsylvania.  I can’t speak for America’s cesspool the south but my hunch tells me they’re the ones who would feel most strongly about this.  This is my non-expert opinion.

To once again summarize my beliefs: to feel that in this past decade you’ve become the victim of racism (after centuries of untouched political and social dominance)  is callously offensive and reeks of entitlement.  I’ll also toot my own horn and say that I’ve met and spoken to Michael Norton (one of the paper’s authors).  Both him and his research are really cool.  And I’ll end with an Arrested Development quote to lighten the mood.  Franklin Delano Bluth knows