Consider the following hypothetical scenarios:

You have worked at your company for several years; you finished your Masters Degree in your spare time at night school. You come up for promotion, you have it in the bag, and you’ve got experience, education and seniority. You’re called into your boss’ office and he tells you that you are not getting the promotion you worked so hard to get. It is being given to a minority employee who not only has less experience and seniority, but also doesn’t have the educational background in order to keep its government contracts it had to promote a minority.

You are a police officer who has been with your city’s police force for eight years. You take your Sergeants examination and score number 5 out of 50 candidates who took the test. You’re a shoe in fore one of the five Sergeant positions opening up in your city. You don’t get the promotion. In order to maintain federal funding a minority officer who ranked 27th in testing and only has 5 years experience is promoted to Sergeant over you.

You are a white college student working your way through college because your parents earned to much for you to earn a Pell grant but do not have enough to pay for your college so you are going in debt up to your armpits in Student loans. You have finally reach your last year of college and you have one required course to go, you go up to the registration desk to sign up for the course and told you can not register for the course even though there are ten empty slots. When you ask why, you are told those slots are reserved for minority students, who might want to take the course. Continue reading →