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You know Rob...I don't think that's so much anger as it is frustration. I don't know if Canada has half the bullshit laws regarding race that hurt a certain group of the population just to help another, but in my experience is that when this discussion comes up in America, white people vent. And I mean REALLY vent. The problem is that a lot of blacks feel persecuted and a lot of whites feel like they're getting fucked just because they're white. The trouble is, everyone's right. I mean...I'm all for equal opportunity laws that even the playing field, but laws like affirmative action just lower the standard. Everyone here grows up hearing that jobs go to the "best man" (best man for the job...whatever), but these days it's just not true. If the best man for the job is white and a company needs to meet it's affirmative action quota, the best man is not getting the job.

You know what I always find funny? The people who have the most right to complain...American Indians...rarely do. We killed off 90% or more of them and then forced the rest into Oklahoma. If you've never been to Oklahoma, you'll never know what a horrible punishment that is. Sure...we fucked up with black people. Slavery was a terrible thing. The thing that everyone fails to mention is that we were one of the last to enlist the use of slaves and one of the first to outlaw it. Does that make it ok? Of course not. But that was 150 years ago and not a single person alive today has any direct association with it. I think these days a lot of people...particularly whites...feel like they're paying the price for something that they had nothing to do with. I mean...my family didn't come to America until after slavery was abolished, so why should I be paying for it? There's also the issue of why illegal hispanic immigrants are also allowed to take advantage of this...but that's a different story altogether. So, simply put, white people have a right to be pissed. And so does everyone else.