Essay On Reverse Racism

Reverse Racism Reverse racism is a controversial and touchy subject in American society and academia and is originated from misconception and prejudice. As soon as affirmative action (Merriam-Webster 2017) was enforced by laws in the latter middle half of the twentieth century in the United States of America, reverse racism existed, and it is difficult to find middle grounds between affirmative action and reverse racism. Thus, we should abolish affirmative action so reverse racism ceases to exist, and American society is better off without affirmative action and reverse racism. Racism is happening in every country of the world, and in the United States of America people mention racism when they talk about discrimination against the African American people and other underrepresented minorities and favoring the White people. In fact, the notion of racism is not exactly what the people think. In contrast, reverse racism does exist in the United States of America because of reverse …show more content…
Universities, colleges and workplaces have been in compliance with affirmative action rules and regulations for more than fifty years and it is time to reconsider swapping affirmative action with not race-based but race-neutral alternatives. Furthermore, racial preference should be a thing of the past because it produced only mix results. Recently statistics showed that in half of American participated in Public Religion Research Institute poll only fifty seven percent of whites and sixty six percent of working whites believe discrimination against whites is as great as discrimination against blacks (Newkirk 2017). Moreover, Newkirk mentioned in his article for some reasons three out of four recipients of private external scholarships in four year bachelor programs were white students while affirmative action has been enforced for more than fifty