Discrimination?

I was at a Dunkin Donuts and I overheard an interesting conversation.

A white construction worker, and his friend were getting some coffee. The construction worker was telling the manager (at least I think he’s the manager) that they only hire Indian people. How he never sees anyone else working there. The manager thought the man was joking around, so he just kind of brushed off the comment. But the man continued to say that, when a white man only hires white people it’s racist, but when Indian people only hire Indian people it’s OK.

Now I was with him so far because I’m a hard core DD fan, and the ones I’ve been to have a majority of Indian people as employees. And I’ve been to quite a few, in different neighborhoods. Granted I don’t know the inner workings of DD, this is just something I’ve noticed.

Then the guy continued to say how they (I’m assuming Indians and more generally, immigrants) are taking away jobs from Americans, and how what the manager is doing is wrong and he should pray to his God about it and ask for forgiveness. Because what he’s doing is wrong, he knows it, and he’s still doing it.

That’s when I got pretty upset. People need to stop making excuses for their misfortunes. Discrimination is never OK, no matter who does it. And if you’re going to say immigrants are taking American jobs, I’d like to see some numbers. Show me a study that has been done, to prove the validity of that statement. Otherwise stop starting petty arguments with people who are working just as hard as you are to make ends meet.

People are so focused on assigning blame, that they forget to work towards fixing the problem.