Racial Equality is so 1968

Few things piss me off as much as Racial Equality. Admit it America, we are not at all equal, and pretending that as a nation we ignore skin tone or sexuality is just stupid. Now don't get the point of what I'm about say wrong, I am totally glad we all have rights and freedom under the constitution, and in no way would I ever take that away from us. What I am tired of is being put down for my skin tone, because believe it or not it's all around me.

The question here is this: "Should I be denied scholarships and services because I am Caucasian rather than African-American, Hispanic, or anything else?"

This is America, and in case you don't remember, here we believe we were all created equally (or so we say). Do we act on this equality notion though? In my opinion no we do not... "But Kegan, why would you say something terrible like that? We have a black President, and a female-hispanic Supreme Court Justice" and to that I say WHOOPEE-FRIGGING-DO.

I really do wish both of them much success, as their decisions effect me, but what I do wish is that they were: hermaphroditic, a-sexual, and clear. It really shouldn't matter that President Obama is African-American, and it shouldn't matter that Sonia Sotomayor is Hispanic nor should it matter that she is female. Does it matter though? In the eyes of many Americans, yes it does.

What made me start this rant was this, organizations such as the NAACP will award scholarships to many students, but ONLY if they are "Colored" (Their word not mine). The NAACP isn't at all rare though, as there is: UNCF (United Negro College Fund), The Ron Brown Scholarships, and over 200 others (http://www.blackexcel.org/200-Scholarships.html).

Not only do scholarships look at it, but it seems that colleges do as well. Being a white male, if I wanted to go to Harvard University, and there was a Middle-Eastern girl with a slightly lower GPA and all around slightly worse stats (not because she's middle eastern, but because I maybe tried harder) you know as well as I do that she would be the one to make it in. This is not fair, in modern day United States we all have the option of attending the same schools, and if she has a lower GPA then me, goddamnit I earned it.

As Martin Luther King Jr. stated...

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

It seems the leader we so strongly quote will never receive his wish, we are still judged by the colors of our skin. We are still judged by race, and it seems to only be getting worse as we go.

I'm not saying at all that I am like those before me, and I am being attacked for my very race, but I am not receiving a fair bargain either. I was cursed to be a white male it seems, a fact that society will sure as hell remind me of.