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Our Black communities were already "different people" under the law—
until the 1960's when gradually Jim Crow laws were repealed. There
were laws. Real legal laws that were enforced.
"Affirmative Action" is just recognition of an existing state of
affairs, a recognition that is *supposed* to say that it is illegal
to discriminate.
Of course poverty is the problem, … or maybe it is unemployment. If
decent jobs were available, poverty would surely shrink almost away.
But this is utopian because capitalism needs the reserve army of the
unemployed visible to the workers to remind them of where they will
end up if they misbehave. And why hire a child when the boss can hire
a full grown man for the same price?
--rod
On May 13, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Caio Rearte wrote:
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David, I'm sorry if I was too defensive.
Affirmative action doesn't attack the real issue: poverty. Poverty
is what
leads to school evasion, not having the opportunity to study
(because when
your parents earn minimum wage - or less - you need to enter the
workforce
at 10, 11, or younger), and even if you do get a grade, you get
paid less
than the white fella working next to you. Plus, affirmative action
segregates, because it turns people with different skin colors
into different *people *under the Law*, *who are entitled to different
rights - rights that should be universal, like access to education.
Caio
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