On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I watched to full video last night, and I thought that she did seem to be > saying that there shouldn't be an issue of helping color, but helping > poor. I agree with this and have for years. Affirmative Action, if it has > to exist, should be completely revamped so that it works strictly on > economic background, not racial or cultural background.
I mostly agree with this, although I think it is more of a class thing than purely economic. The problem is that race, class and economic background are all intertwined in America and not easy to untangle. I grew up poor and due to where I lived and the environment in which I lived, I had some things stacked against me. It would have been easy to go down the road to crime and drug addiction like a lot of kids I knew. I had some advantages as well though, with some strong family role models and expectations that I would go on and amount to something and get out of that situation. Part of that was the particulars of my family but I know that those exceptions were not present for a lot of the hispanic kids I went to grade school with, for instance. I don't think it was just race or just economics or just class (which I think is some sort of combination of economics, race and history). Tough to clearly delineate though, which makes it hard for policy. > The issue of her resignation/termination probably has to do more with her > admitting that she was biased and did not help fully when she should have, > regardless of the second thoughts. > > As Scott has brought up, a white person who had second thought after > committing such an act would not be given any benefit of the doubt. Sounds to me like she didn't get a benefit of the doubt from anyone that matters. She was canned and the white people she helped (at least the farmer family in question) was very sad to see her go. A best friend of mine volunteered for years at a free laser tattoo removal service that gets rid of racist and gang tattoos. It is a painful and unpleasant process. But there are a lot of people out there of all races that have come through, realizing that they were stupid when they were young and that it is time to move past old prejudices and get on with a better outlook on life. I support that regardless of race, creed, color or religion. Jud ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323222 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
