Dear Editor,
We want to respond to the BYU student who wrote a letter so concerned with the discrimination that white males face in the world today.
While we are pleased that the writer acknowledged that race and gender inequalities still exist, I must greatly differ with the position that he takes that the population that faces the gravest discrimination is made up of white males.
The writer obviously has not done his research. Look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics; look at who is in charge of major U.S. corporations; look at who our political leaders are; look at law firms, and look at practically every other institution which defines who has power and authority.
These sources seem to indicate white males still fare pretty well in contemporary America.
I would even say that white males in Provo are doing more than OK.
Why do we not need a White Student Union? What problems and issues do white students face at a university that is overwhelmingly white?
Why do we not need a “Men’s Law Forum?” BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School has one of the lowest ratios of female law students in the country. Most of the classes at the law school are roughly the equivalent of a “men’s law forum.”
What white males with this attitude call “discrimination,” is what the rest of America recognizes as required if we are to emerge from years of inequality to a more just society.
It is the lamentation of certain white males having to give up their entire pie of power, and share it with a diverse population.
We would be interested in hearing what issues white males face, monolithically, that imply they are discriminated against. It is hard for us not to be stereotypical and think of any.
Leslie Street
Pensacola, Fla.
Natacha Allred
Seattle, Wash.
Michelle Reed
Austin, Minn.
Samuel Newton
Lindon
Patricia Abbott
Springville
