Frank Galvin said:
For 350 years being an Anglo male was a necessary condition for almost any decent job in the colonies/America. Anglo males are now very upset about racial discrimination? Call me in a couple of centuries.
1. Even if we define the USA as starting in 1776....from that date to the Civil Rights act it was 189 years.
2. Plenty of White people who were not Anglo who had decent jobs in America.
And other groups...like Jewish immigrants broke in fairly quickly as well and saw lots of success despite certain discriminatory attitudes.
America had more upward mobility than almost any country in the world (and still does)
Something we often forget. America was never as racist as other places. We were an outlier in meritocracy. That was expanded out every generation and more people allowed to rise without discrimination
3. Plenty of the worst jobs and grunt labor was in fact done by White people (Irish especially) for generations.
4. Regardless of past racial discrimination 180 years ago (mostly directed against African Americans) that is still not a logical excuse for modern day discrimination against anyone for reasons of race, gender,& national origin.
And its actually against the law.
