Thanks for the thought out response... When I was growing up and starting to look for work was told that when a job posting mentions a priority for women and visible minorities should be taken as "white men need not apply".
The main point I was hoping to raise was that, while you are not wrong about racism, especially in the not so distant past, the trend has been turning to the opposite. Where now it is acceptable to engage in racism against white people, just like sexist attitudes are generally acceptable against men.
The point: it can be a time to bring about a just society for all, or simply allow the pendulum to swing to the opposite extreme.
I think that's why it was called reverse-discrimination, the pendulum swinging the other way. Which is a good way to describe it.
But like I said it began in the early 1970s - going on 50 years now, nearly two generations. That's a long time for a pendulum to swing in one direction. Do you think it will swing back? Come to a more equal ground? Where it doesn't matter one bit what you look like, just on how well you do your job? Maybe that was the hope at the time. And maybe one day it will be true. But how many generations will it take?
Ideally, I would like to see things brought and kept near a balance.
The situation is in such a state of flux right now, with so many competing agendas and interests (some of them desire the strategy of tension because that allows groups to be played off against each other), that it's tough to predict.