How Jews became white folks

1. The article How Jews Became White Folks and what that says about race in America is about how after world war 2 the veterans who served in the war was suppose to receive money and get preferential hiring. However this was not free from discrimination.

2. In this article Brodkin talks about how the money and help that the veterans were getting from their GI bill did not give their fair share to all the veterans. The people who benefited most were the white males. The women and American Americans received little or no money for serving in the armed forces. Therefore, the only people who really got anything for serving their country disproportionately male, Euro origin GIs (p44).

3. If Affirmative action only helped white males, then why do people have such hard feeling about it today? People do not like that people of different ethnicity gets the advantage in being hired before them for the same job and having the same skills because they feel it is discrimination. However if we look back to the article we see that the white people were the ones who got all of the advantages back around the end of world war 2, so the government is tiring to turn the tables and give the people of another ethnicity a chance to get the things that were promised to them back then that they never received.

4. This was an article that was able to explain affirmative action to me a way that was easy to understand. Before reading this I just thought it had something to do with giving a group of people a fair chance at something and no one else. I knew that it was a way to pay people back but for what reason I did not know. After reading this I have learned that Affirmative action is a way to level the playing Field for the people who served in the arm forces and were not compensated for their time.