Just don't use anything made of cotton to wipe your tears. -----Original Message----- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:44 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News
i have no recourse now except to cry....unless that offends you... -----Original Message----- From: Dan Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:33 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News Make sure that the Tack Hammer was made by a minority owned company too. -----Original Message----- From: cfhelp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:30 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News Are you a fully qualified Tack Hammer Operator? Rick -----Original Message----- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:16 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News I have no solution for that other than to hit myself in the head repeatedly with a tack hammer. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:12 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News But then the generally unlucky will want the same rights as those that are generally lucky ;-p -----Original Message----- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:07 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News or just put all qualified names in a hat and pick the number equal to the number of slots available. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:08 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News I agree. Perhaps the affirmative action should be amended to: In cases where there are equally qualified majority and minority candidates, the candidate to be chosen should be chosen when it will more equally distrubute the employment racial balance to reflect the national average. This would make the racial balance in all cases. Of course, I don't think quotas should be used in any case. -Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: cfhelp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:57 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: CNN Breaking News My wife graduated from high school Valedictorian and got a $500 scholarship. A black student in her class graduated with a 2.0 and got a full paid scholarship. Was it fair that my wife worked hard to get the grades she got and someone that just skims by with little effort gets a full ride and only because they are a minority? They went to the same school had the same books, the same teachers, the same counselors and the same administration. Is the goal of Affirmative action to place Minorities and repress majorities? I didn't repress anyone and my children sure haven't, its time to move on. Affirmative action is outdated and needs to be abolished. Everyone should work for there future and be rewarded for merit not for race. And in cases you are wondering and you want to say something like "They are being denied the opportunity for the quality high school educating that the white majority receives". Van Horn High School Faculty Principle: Mr. Brooks (African American) (Died in 1995 and probably one of the best individuals I have ever met.) Sr. vice Principle: Mr. Brooks (African American) Vice Principle: Mr. Tuner (African American) Vice Principle: Mr. Buford (African American) I can only think of one white woman and I do not remember her name, she was a student Counselor. White students were the schools minority and race fights broke out all the time. The usual cause, stupidity handed down from everyone's parents. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:52 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
