4: Race for the Funds? Commentary on Reverse Racism.

(This is the fourth in a mini-blog series on the issues raised in
1: Race for the Funds?)

(4) What is Reverse Racism?
Reverse racism is racism or discrimination against whites by people of color.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s white California farm workers complained of reverse racism. The farm workers were concerned because they were losing their jobs to another group of people of color, Hispanics.

At that time, many white Americans found it difficult to understand how a minority population could create a significant employment problem for white Americans. Apparently, even these relatively low paying agricultural seasonal jobs were not plentiful. Hispanic migrant farm workers grabbed the attention and sympathy of many white Americans as they organized unions to improve their job conditions.

How have people of color found so many lawyers and so much financial support for their causes? Many of the issues seem to be the usual workplace issues about working conditions, pay, and promotions.

Perhaps lawyers found it easier to win settlements, and the court found it harder to deny arguments when pointing to a client with such an obvious characteristic as race, black or brown skin color. Maybe racial profiling works for the client in these cases.

The whole issue of the winning color "race card" and "race-based" lawsuits and settlements seems preposterous to many Americans of European descent. There are lots of different and diverse white people in America. There are often tensions and prejudices against people from certain other countries, ethnic, religious, or cultural backgrounds. But people usually try to resolve it or find other opportunities or bring lawsuits on general law issues. Do you know of any lawsuits between opposing British, Irish, German, Italian, French, Polish, or other European Americans or against the US government by any of these groups on job, housing, financial, or other issues?

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