I have come to notice that every time a person writes a let ter in opposition to the recent racism reports in the paper, there is a backlash of "If you experienced racism" letters. I am a white, middle-class, Catholic male , and I am discriminated against more than any other individual in the university. I come from a family of seven kids. This family has had at least two kids at Penn State for the last nine years and at least one for the past ten. Each year, we have applied for grants for aid but have been denied because my parents make "too much money." However, I have some very close friends who are black and who come from smaller families with greater incomes than my own. Each of these friends has received grants from the government. This sounds a lot to me like preferential treatment based on race. Nevertheless, people have written in, claiming that people like me have no right to oppose racism reports because we haven't "experienced" it.

We have the right because we have experienced it as much as anyone else. The difference is that we don't complain and post it everywhere. I understand the need

to educate, and that is why I don't person-ally oppose the racism reports. Don't assume that white people don't experience racism.