Obama: Speaking in Berlin, Germany.

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Care to elaborate on that?

Sure.

First of all, allow me to start with my own experiences within the city of Chicago. Now, I do some odd jobs around the offices of a law firm, installing printers, moving old computers, putting on pots of coffee to brew, and the like; and this law firm does mainly cases for poorer clients, almost entirely working class blacks from the south side, who have been screwed over by predatory institutions. Lately we've been seeing, as you might guess, a lot of sub-prime loan victims, but really the variety discrimination in these cases is pretty astounding. There's the half a dozen or so black families who's water bill is about 30 times what the actual cost of the water they used is, there's the collection of black railroad workers fired from their pleasantly middle-class jobs for extremely minor and anal rule violations, there's several elderly victims of foreclosures, including the one who's 5 hour interview I converted to text, and the other who signed a contract with print too small for her too possibly read and even then littered with uncommon acronyms that had to be professionally researched to be translated. Oh, equality was indeed achieved decades ago.

Are you aware of the disproportionate percentages of minorities screwed by the housing bubble? Seen the research done in which over half of white subjects subconsciously racially profiled, and less than half of African-Americans did. In Illinois, blacks and Latinos are stopped about 5 times as frequently for consenting vehicle checks, despite the rate of contraband found in searched Caucasian driven vehicles being about twice as high.

Now, what you judge to be modern prejudice against whites, and particularly against white males is a sort of compensation really, and not only is it crucial to progress and necessary, more is necessary. Is it easier for an African-American applicant to get into any given college? Yes, although it is a very slight advantage relative to the influence of grades and scores. The thing is that it is so much more likely for a student of European or Asian ancestry to actually be able to apply, that a slight advantage is hardly anything a white student seeking a higher education should be concerned about. The education then builds onto careers, where the sheer nature of the disproportion in qualification, plus the aforementioned subconscious profiling makes necessary a system enforcing more proportionate hiring practices, and therefore, fairer practices.

You cannot slow inequality by repealing laws disadvantageous to minorities, you need to create laws, albeit temporary ones, that are advantageous to the formerly oppressed group. Otherwise, the balance of power never shifts, and not only is progress stagnant, it remains perfectly capable of reversion.

Tl;dr: You're invariably wrong, as I said.