It is some people's opinion, including mine, that programs like Affirmative Action create racism by allowing bigots to point at the program and claim that people who are not qualified get in while perfectly qualified white people don't.
I am not saying this is correct, I am saying that Affirmative Action does breed racism, every body has heard stories about loosing a job or not getting a promotion because the under-qualified black guy got it. I don't think Affirmative Action is the answer, I don't think it correctly treats the disease, only a symptom, and overt treating of this symptom progresses the disease. The education and justice systems in this country seem to be racist, not everywhere, but a lot of places have problems. Affirmative Action was a program put in place to try to make up for these problems. However, it treats the problem after the damage is done. We have to fix the real problems. Just my 2 cents :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:52 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News > > 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
