"Straight White Affluent Male Native-Born Protestants Are Uniquely Oppressed"

[JDPriestly]

9. The crux of the problem: white people vote.

CALIFORNIA’S EXCLUSIVE ELECTORATE
MARK BALDASSARE
. . . .

California’s electorate does not reflect the size, the growth, or the
diversity of California’s population. Today, eight in 10 adults are
eligible to vote but just 56 percent are registered, less than half (43%)
belong to one of the major parties, and only 35 percent of adults can
be expected to vote in the November election. Voter registration has
grown at a slower rate than the population. As a result, 12 million
of the state’s 27.7 million adults are not registered to vote. Moreover,
although the state has become increasingly diverse, the adults
who frequently vote are predominantly white, age 45 and older,
and relatively affluent. In contrast, nonvoters (those who are not
registered to vote) are mostly nonwhite, younger, and less affluent
than frequent (or “likely”) voters.

. . . .

Analysis of thousands of interviews from the PPIC Statewide Surveys
shows that California’s likely voters are disproportionately white and
native born. By 2000, California had become the first large majority
minority state—that is, a state in which no ethnic or racial group
constitutes the majority. Today, the California adult population is 46
percent white and 32 percent Latino; the remaining 22 percent are
Asian (12%), black (6%), and other. Yet, seven in 10 California likely
voters are white, only one in six is Latino, and the remainder are
Asian, black, and other. Moreover, even though one in three adults
is foreign-born, about nine in 10 of the Californians who frequently
vote in the state’s elections were born in this country.

. . . .

Likely voters are also unrepresentative in demographic
characteristics such as age and socioeconomic status. The majority
of Californians who are frequent voters are age 45 and older (62%),
homeowners (77%), and college graduates (53%), with household
incomes of $60,000 or more (56%). The majority of California
nonvoters are under age 45 (76%) and renters (66%); fewer than
one in five is a college graduate (17%) or earns $60,000 or more
(18%). On all these dimensions, both likely voters and nonvoters are
distinct from all California adults.

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/atissue/AI_906MBAI.pdf

If you want to change attitudes about race and sexuality, get out and register people to vote.

And if your state does not permit felons who have served their time to vote, try to change that law. Point out that it discriminates based on race if you have to.

It won't do to just complain about discrimination, you have to be willing to take action. Register voters, write articles, sue if you must and can. Don't just complain. And don't resort to violence. Violence will just make things worse. Insulting people who do not agree with you will also just make things worse. And above all, do everything you can to make sure your children have the opportunities they need so that they can lead the country in the right direction.