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Tom, are you proud or ashamed of all your prejudices as revealed in
this thread? If you truly are a "whitey" that "get's all the best.."
yada yada then more than likely you are exploiting others and
attributing it to your right as a white person. That is just sad.

As a white (non-gay) male, I have persistently stood up for persecuted
minorities at the risk of my job. I lost 2 jobs in the past 25 years.
The first case was protecting an Asian American who applied for a
management position (she did not deserve it but the manager that made
the decision spread racial slurs about her during the process) and
another female that was partially black (but I did not know that at the
time) who was harrassed because it became known that she was sexually
attracted to other females. Having said all of this, I have never (yet)
seen blatant direct persecution of a white non-gay male, but I have
seen A LOT of environmental persecution. This is when the "environment"
(workplace culture) makes it a liability to be a white non-gay male.
Most often you see white males getting passed by even though they are
the stronges candidate. I spent more than half my career in San
Francisco so I have hired and promoted a very diverse collection of
people. In San Francisco and many cities with similar factors, the
white male (unless he is gay, the only way a white male can get
protection from an advocacy group and some have actually faked being
gay for precisely this reason) is nearly on the lowest rung of
society's ladder.

This is the current situation that has been getting steadily worse
since I first noticed it in the early 90s. During the huge influx of
workers chasing Bay Area tech jobs, it became much worse and more
obvious. I have seen men from Pakistan hiring only others from...guess
and I have seen a man from the Phillipines defrauding the Immigration
documents required to keep a fellow countrymen in the country and on
the job illegally. This was prior to September 11 2001 but if
continuted up to at least 18 months ago that I know for sure and more
than likely is still the current situation. I could go on, but this is
a depressing topic and I come here for the bike racing and not the OT
political threads. I can't stand to see morons spreading PC garbage
without offering my testimony though.