On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Vivec wrote: > Strange that this has coincided with the many assertions that race is no > longer an issue, therefore there is no need for affirmative action or civil > rights movements anymore in the US >
I disagree with many of the opinions in this editorial. Things are not perfect but the US is not regressing. Progress can and will still be made without affirmative action, which I agree has reached the end of it's usefulness in most cases. I am friends with a black mother who is taking her daughter out of a local majority black high school because the kids there really are very troubled and are having a terrible influence on her daughter. Don't get me wrong, there is still work to be done, but I think that there is only so much that can be done by bussing kids all over the place just to even out the racial ratios of kids across a large geographic area (which has been the Atlanta area's solution to forced integration since the 70s). I think that the bigger problem right now is the prison pipeline criminalizing kids who may otherwise be good kids. The prohibition of weed and other less harmful drugs has put so many kids into a system that cannot be escaped from. So many of the victims of this system are poor and so many poor (in my city) are black. Kids who are diverted from a normal path to this path will have a HUGE problem as adults having any any sort of productive role in society. I can tell you that this is the number one problem in my observation in my area of town. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370449 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
