Contrary to popular belief, white people do not have everything going for them.
They are the asses of affirmative action, the crackers of conformity and the honkies of horrible fashion sense. Historically, white people had it easier, but the age of equality has knocked us down a few notches.
The 21st century is not the time to be a white male. Whites stand out more in a snowstorm than they do in an application pool. Employers are looking for the exceptional — not the mundane qualities found in white males.
When filling out an application for some prestigious internship or lucrative profession, it’s important to separate oneself from the other candidates. This task is exponentially harder for white people.
White people simply haven’t suffered enough in the past to make the present easy. White people weren’t ostracized due to race or denied a voice due to gender. As a matter of fact, white males have typically been the antagonists of history.
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini were all infamous dictators responsible for mass murder — they were also white males.
White people were on the winning side, and now the tables have turned. The Census Bureau predicted white people will be a minority by 2043.
With white people soon to be a minority, there will likely be an online dating site where whites can mingle with other white
people. You’ve seen it with
BlackPeopleMeet and JDate.
The downside to a strictly white dating site is the fact that it may be considered racist. After all, why would whites want to date only white people? Is no other race good enough for them?
Tons of double standards exist where one race can do one thing and another race can’t. For example, if a black kid says, “white people can’t jump,” it’s brushed off as a playful joke. If I were to say “black people can’t swim,” there would be a huge uproar.
The constant pressure to not appear racist sits on pasty shoulders like a parrot on a pirate. This is the reason WhitePeopleMingle will remain a figment of our imaginations for all but KKK members. The closest we’ll get is
FarmersOnly.com.
White people live vanilla lives. We’re raised by a white bread family, have access to a great education, establish connections with interesting friends, find jobs, work for 50 years and retire to a world riddled with bingo, solitaire and boredom.
Whether the difficulties faced by white people are the repercussions of historical injustices or the lack of troubles faced in the typical white life, it is overtly clear racial differences exist. We live in a time where equality is praised and promoted, yet we still set double standards.
If the American population really was equal we wouldn’t live in constant fear of being called out for something racist.
Those blessed enough to be considered “politically correct” search with hungry eyes, attempting to find something that could potentially be perceived as bigotry. After all, how else would we know how progressive one truly is if he isn’t calling someone else out on their political incorrectness?
When political correctness goes too far, constructs like race get blown out of proportion.
People should live their lives without perception of race. Race is a social construct and exists because we allow it to exist. In the words of every third-grade teacher, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.
Race shouldn’t merit any form of judgement, especially after so many activists worked so hard to prohibit racism’s prevalence. If we really were as progressive as we’d like to believe, race would play a significantly smaller role in today’s society.
Kain Hingle is a 20-year-old psychology sophomore from Mandeville, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @kain_hingle.