I keep reading how immigrants, particularly Asians, are victims of the prevalent white racism in our society.
Are these Asians forced to drink from a separate water fountain, attend inferior schools, denied access to living in upscale areas? Will, someone please give me two solid examples of racism which they, or their spouse, have experienced within the last fifteen years.
As a white male, I’ll be happy to give you two of my own.
During 1994, I was looking for work. A large well-known grocery store chain had a help wanted add in the paper, looking for an accountant, I met all the requirements, so I went down to the store to speak with the hiring manager. When I arrived at the store, the manager, a Latino male a few years older than me, told me that they had already filled the position. I offered to leave my resume, just in case. He said no, that wouldn’t be necessary. I left the store feeling angry, and confused.
Three days later, the store still had their help-wanted add in the paper. My wife, who I don’t mind saying is a very attractive woman, took the advertisement in her hand, and went to spoke to the same store manager. My wife has no experience in accounting or bookkeeping, yet she was allowed to complete a job application, and was given an interview. I contacted the stores home-office in Tracy, and they told me they would review hiring practices at that particular store.
If this wasn’t racism then what was it?
A few months ago we purchased a second hand car from a local dealership. It wasn’t especially flashy or grand, but it was a type of car which some people might associate with the thug lifestyle.
The very first morning after I went purchased the car, I found someone had written the words, Bitch, Ho, and White-boy, all over the back of my car. I had the damaged repaired, and reported it to the local police, who did not seem to be the slightest bit concerned. The cop said, “If we can catch them, we can charge them with a hate-crime.”
The next week, someone keyed the entire passenger side of my car one night when I had to park on the curb in front of my house. I decided not to fix the damage, and just left it like that.
The next evening I was returning home from a walk with my dog. I noticed an unfamiliar SUV blocking my driveway. The sun was just starting to go down as I was nearing my home. As I reached my home, I found a Latino gentleman reading my car’s vin numbers into a mobile phone. I asked him if he needed some help. He said “Oh, Oh, is this your car? I thought it was my partner’s car.” he then got into the idling SUV and left.
Two nights later, someone cut all four valve stems on my tires. I then decided to get rid of the car, it wasn’t worth the risk to myself and my family.
If this wasn’t racism, then what was it?
After reviewing these two experiences, I reached the conclusion that we are living in a society without any freedoms what so ever. I can’t drive the car I want, if my neighbors disapprove of it. I can’t obtain a job for which I’m qualified, if the moron making such decisions thinks with his little head, and not his big head.
Also, to all the immigrants, who come to this country and complain about racism. Presumably you came to this country to obtain a better life for yourself and your family. But, have you ever asked yourself, why you had to leave your country to do so?
With all due respect, most of you had to leave your countries because of economic pressures in your local economies. Or put in simpler terms, your countries are so horribly over-populated that the forces of supply and demand have been turned completely on their ear.
In most countries, there are so many people competing for the same job, that it is absolutely an employers market. Unless you are in upper-management in some foreign firm, you can forget about living a life-style even remotely similar to the one you have here in the US. Only rich people can afford to live in a single family house, in most places outside the US. Albeit, a single family house with a ten-foot high concrete wall, and steel gate protecting it.
Does anyone see a trend here? Those American born before 1965, or so, will remember a time when a modest working family could buy a home here in America. That’s all gone, as our population exploded thanks to unbridled immigration. This helped labor rates stay flat, or reverse themselves, has property values soared ever higher. Aren’t we rapidly creating the same environment, within our own country, which caused immigrants to leave their country for a better life? I suppose the only good thing about this will be that within another ten years or so, life in this country will not be any better than it is any place else in the world. Then they will stop coming here in an unstoppable flood.
The only question will then be; who we blame for killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
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