Wasn't affirmative action meant to prevent Racist whites from stopping blacks from entering Universities, getting jobs etc. ?
Isn't the whole thing based around the principle that you must have a certain amount of non-white people in your University etc. AFAIK Racism is still alive and kicking in the United States....so I don't see why there is an undercurrent of dissent that wishes to do away with affirmative action. I don't think that all the people that want this are racist...but if the problem has not been removed...why remove the cure? Of course it would be perfect if everyone got hired on merit. And a black person and a white person could compete and the black would get through based on Merit....but hey that's just not the real world..it isn't America...or in most cases Europe either. So there needs to be a remedy. One could try to talk around the problem all one wants...but the fact remains that Blacks are underpriviliged and marginalised in the US. If not affirmative action..then what? -Gel -----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Whoo-hoo! Finally a bit of sanity. larry > >-- U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-4 to uphold University of Michigan's >affirmative action policy in law school admissions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
