Racism in America: Because you definitely asked for a downer subject

With the recent death of a certain singer, whom I have vowed not to mention while on the internet, I have been considering a subject that always gets me irked up. In light of this singer's death, two figure have reemerged from their regular, but temperary, boughts with social irrelevance, and their names are always mentioned alongside my topic. They are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and my topic is, you guessed it, racism. Racism, and specifically the issues of slavery and civil rights in relation to it, have given life to countless, supposedly not-for-profit organizations. The promotion of minorities in this country is an important step if you want to be considered as legitimate in business, Hollywood, and even as an individual. I think part of the reason for this is that many white people would like to make up for the many, horrible, horrible things that they did to African-Americans all the way up to, but not ending with, the '60's. I will be the first to admit that these things were horrible and despicable. Some will try to defend even our nation's founders for what they did and how they had slaves. I'm not one of those people. I will readily acknowledge that our founding fathers were bigotous men who's grasp of equality stretched only as far as their tax documents. They did not at all fully understand how true and important the words they spoke were.
I fear, though, that the desire to defend white people will turn into an obligation to place miorities first. I don't say that meaning that I wish for whites to be first, I mean that there should be no preferential treatment at all because of race. Forty years ago, preferential treatment meant that whites were always first, now it's completely changed. In America today, being a minority will give you a statistically better chance of getting accepted to college, getting financial aid for that college, playing in the NBA, and a whole host of other things. What is more, there are countless organizations that are considered noble because they support minority issues. If there were white-oriented counterparts of these organizations, there would be huge public uproar. Think about colleges that offer 'African American Heritage Scholarships', or about our official African American History month. What would happen if we had 'Causcasian History Month' or a 'Caucasian Heritage' Scholarship? What about the 'national association for the advancement of white people'? How many of you laughed just reading that? Those suggestions would be positively offensive if they were true. There is no denying it. So why the heck does our society put up with it? When I looked at the named scholarships for the University of Missouri, there were 16 total, a whopping 12 of which required you to be a minority and 2 required you be a minority AND a woman. What is this crap? If 12 scholarships required you to be white, there would total uproar.
So I ask you, is there racism in America? You bet there is. The land of the free and the home of the brave harbors an angry grudge and facilitates a double standard against those of the caucasian decent. Yeah, that's right, I said it. What is more, I can prove it.

Go ahead and leave me angry comments, I'm ready.