“Back of the bus, sir.” 

            It’s not always easy being a Caucasian anymore.  You stand up, grab your bag from beneath your seat, and make your way to the back of the bus where “your kind” has their designated seats.  You’re on your way home from a job interview that left you with a bad taste in your mouth:  the bitter taste of what is now commonly being called “reverse discrimination”. 

            This is an exaggerated story.  How far are we from this, though?  It has become increasingly apparent that affirmative action is doing the things that it is supposed to be doing, but to the extreme.  It is this extreme cause-and-effect process that affirmative action causes that leads us directly back to the problem of discrimination.  No longer is this discrimination directed towards the African-Americans, but now the discrimination is being directed at the average white American male.  Affirmative action should, as a result, be eliminated.

            The focus of affirmative action was, initially, to give African-Americans and other minorities an even chance at the job market.  It is a concept that is a good one:  minorities are being discriminated against when given opportunities to enter the job market, and it was becoming unnecessarily hard to find employment.  Suitable, well-qualified workers were being turned away because they did not qualify in two important categories:  gender, and race.  It was then determined that the most appropriate way to deal with said problem was to initiate a quota system.  Depending on the size of the business and number of employees hired in a year, a certain number of these had to be a minority. 

            This is where the problems start cropping up.  They start like dandelions, but eventually spread until all that can be seen are dandelions.

            The “point system”—as we will refer to it—works as such:  any minority is worth one quota point.  Any person that encompasses more than one minority group is worth whatever number of group qualifications that they fill.  So a female, black, homosexual woman is nearly guaranteed the job if she is competent.  It is entirely feasible that a Caucasian male who is better qualified may be turned away, his Business diploma left on the shelf above where he hangs his new McDonald’s uniform. 

            Is that fair?  Is that America?  It’s the new America.  The America who feels guilty, and feels like they owe somebody something. 

            The truth is that people are people, and what happened in the past is the past.  Minorities reveled in Lincoln’s words when he stood and gave “The Emancipation Proclamation”—probably one of the most important civil rights speeches ever given, running neck and neck with Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “I Have a Dream”.  Lincoln’s words were as follows:  “All men are created equal.” 

            Equal?  You could take that word so many ways.  Equal voting rights.  Equal rights to a good education.  And maybe even equal job opportunities?

            If only it were true, and not just a dream.  When minorities were discriminated against, it was considered wrong, and un-American.  The unfair treatment of white males is now the law.