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No one should even have to ASK to be treated decently, much less beg, and I wasn't suggesting that you should. I hope that's not the impression that I gave.
And I agree that what's fair for one is fair for all. White people have never been persecuted in this country (and off the top of my head, I'm having a hard time coming up with a country where white people have been racially persecuted). Minorities still are not on a level playing field. The year I graduated, 1993, there were no black students in my high school. That's odd, since about 20% of this town's population is black. I remember two black girls, sisters, who began attending the school a few weeks after the school year started. Everything went fine, and they appeared to be rather well-liked, until the older sister tried out for, and made, the cheerleading squad. They didn't last two weeks after that. Everyone was willing to deal with them until they got "uppity". How dare they displace white girls from the cheerleading squad? They were harrassed until they left and began attending the "ghetto" school.
It seems obvious to me that if we can't treat "American minorities" with respect, we're not going to bother to do much better with "foreign minorities".
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