We recently posted data showing that African Americans continue to suffer from hiring discrimination practices at high rates to this day.
We also recently reported that one in seven white American families are currently millionaires, and that by 2020 the average white American families will have $1 million to their names. And, we further told you that if current trends continue, the median wealth of black Americans will be $0 by 2053.
However, it looks like white Americans believe they're the true victims here.
According to a recent poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health entitled You, Me, Them, 55 percent of white Americans believe that white Americans are being discriminated against in today's society.
"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," noted 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, who is white. "And, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."
According to Hershman, the discrimination has been "going on for decades, and it's been getting worse for whites."
The poll surveyed 3,453 adults, 902 of whom were white.
The study found that white Americans' results came down to three general beliefs: those that believe anti-white discrimination exists and have personally experienced it, those that believe in anti-white discrimination and haven't personally experienced it and those that believe there isn't anti-white discrimination.
"I think that you pretty much, because you're white, you're automatically thrown into that group as being a bigot and a racist and that somehow you perceive yourself as being more superior to everybody else, which is ridiculous," said 50-year-old Maryland resident Tim Musick.
Musick said that he believes anti-white sentiment exists, although he also said he has never experienced it. He did specify that anti-white discrimination doesn't necessarily compare to the kind African Americans face.
"I don't know what it feels like to be a black man walking around in the streets, but I do know what it feels like to be pegged, because of how you look, and what people perceive just on sight," Musick said.
Hershman, however, does believe he knows how that feels, and claims to have been discriminated based on the color of his skin at work. He claims that a black candidate was shortlisted for a promotion over him simply because he was black. However, a white man ultimately got the job.
Researchers found that income had a lot to do with the results.
Low-to-moderate income whites were more likely to claim white discrimination exists than their more affluent counterparts.
This was reflected in Betty Holton, a white retired community college professor in Maryland. "I don't see how we can be discriminated against when, when we have all the power," said Holton. She falls into the group that believes there is no discrimination against whites.
"Look at Congress. Look at the Senate. Look at government on every level. Look at the leadership in corporations. Look. Look anywhere," she continued.
Overall, every ethnic group polled said that it is a target of discrimination, including: African Americans, Latinxs, Native Americans and Asian Americans.
