Much like American schools, streets, and other public locations where Whites are subject to regular interracial violence, Whites too are at risk in their workplaces. In the modern United States Whites experience a growing array of problems securing work, retaining a job once they have found it, and remaining safe in their work environment. Without significant policy changes, including repatriation, Whites will continue to experience growing workplace harassment, violence, and scorn as a disfavored class when it comes to hiring.
A 2017 Harvard poll found that 55% of White Americans believe that racial discrimination against Whites is more severe than against other racial groups. This belief has only grown, with a 2022 University of Maryland poll showing a 25% increase in the share of Whites who have experienced discrimination or noticed increasing discrimination since the original Harvard poll. These feelings of discrimination are born out in the hiring data as well.
After the disastrous 2020 race riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death corporate America made promises to hire a great deal more non-Whites, and it did just this. A 2023 Bloomberg report shows that of the 323,000 jobs added by S&P500 companies in the post-Floyd era a staggering 94% have gone to non-Whites and a majority of the Whites hired were female. Just 20,524 White Americans have gained jobs with America’s largest firms, while non-Whites gained some 302,570 places.
Worst yet, the lowest class of Whites lost jobs. Nearly 20,000 White workers in the sales, labor, and service sectors of corporate America were put out of the job in favor of almost 200,000 non-Whites.
At the outset of the pandemic, White men suffered a 10-point decline in employment as the pandemic rocked the economy. As the US came out of the pandemic it was men who experienced the poorest employment recovery. Half of the White men who lost pre-pandemic jobs were not called back to those jobs, compared to just 28% of Blacks, 37% of Asians, and a mere 7% of Hispanics who permanently lost a job due to the pandemic.
White women fared only slightly better, with 33% permanently losing a pre-pandemic role compared to just 29% of Asian women and 31% of Hispanic women. The only group of women who lost more pre-pandemic roles were Black women, who suffered a 37% loss of pre-pandemic employment.