In Trump’s World, Whites Are the Only Disadvantaged Class

While I am not a believer in "White Privilege", I can say, without a doubt, that blacks, and other minorities, are, most certainly, at a greater disadvantage than whites, in general.

And yet slaves were deemed 3/5 a man, Native Americans were forcibly removed from their land (see Andrew Jackson's ignoring the Supreme Court decision on confiscation of Native American land), immigration laws to prohibit Chinese immigration for ten years as well as later limiting Catholic, Slavic, and Mexican immigration. Internment of Japanese Americans during the second World War, Jim Crow laws in the South and some Northern states that oppressed Blacks for close to one hundred years, and persistent discrimination of Jews. That is not even mentioning the exploitation of Chinese and Irish labor to build our early infrastructure. Those are some of the things that occurred in our history.

Of course some whites have disadvantages, particularly those poor whites who do not have the means to higher education.

This quote was particularly interesting:
"Fisher v. University of Texas, the most recent challenge to affirmative action in higher education to reach the Supreme Court, provides significant context for this week’s developments. By 2013, when the Court first ruled on Fisher’s legal challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions process, sizable minorities of whites had begun to describe themselves, in public-opinion polls, as the most disadvantaged group in American society. African-Americans constituted more than eleven per cent of the population of Texas but just 4.5 per cent of the university population. Fisher’s suit relied on the fact that African-Americans with lower grades than hers had been admitted to U.T. while she had not. But this grievance overlooked the university’s broad formula of factors for admission; in fact, of the forty-seven students admitted to U.T. with lower grades and test scores than Fisher’s, forty-two were white. Last year, after taking up the Fisher case again, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld universities’ right to use race as one factor among many in their admissions processes. "

It just may be a perception among some that feel they should get into the school of their choice. However, most colleges look beyond grades alone. There are many factors that effect one's acceptance including test scores, essays, and letters of recommendation. Some schools even accept the children of alumni almost without question. These are not always fair, but there is a limit to enrollment and someone will always lose out, but perceiving you are disadvantaged limits your options. Those perceptions can either drive you on as motivation or leave you wallowing in self pity. And that applies to every group whether they perceive themselves as advantaged or disadvantaged.