Maybe affirmative action is a necessary "evil", but hopefully its temporary, because it really only fights the symptoms, not the problem.
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From: Angel Stewart
To: CF-Community
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 9:53 AM
Subject: RE: Senate rejects move to ban same-sex marriage
As far as I am reading it, the post says that the Environment in the United
States is such that a non -white person needs the help of Affirmative action to
advance in the work place.
If they fought it on their own without Affirmative Action's help, they would not
achieve on their own merit the way a white person would.
Sad indeed.
While things have gotten better in the US, the majority of my non - white US
friends all do encounter racism and do firmly believe that were it not for the
civil rights movement and the fact that a lot of major US Corporations feel they
HAVE to include non-whites on their payroll or face the wrath of
anti-discrimination laws, they wouldn't hire non - whites over whites regardless
of qualification or merit. And in many instances when the system can be avoided
or worked around, whites are advanced before non -whites. This is the anecdotal
evidence I have.
I know you don't need me to post the statistics that shows the disparity of
income and job status of non whites versus whites in the American workplace to
provide hard numbers. It's gotten better, but it certainly has not reached a
point of equilibrium where anti discrimination laws and affirmative action is no
longer needed.
-Angel
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