Here is a novel idea. How about if the job, college admission, etc go to the most qualified candidates - PERIOD.
It is just as wrong to deny someone a job, college admission, etc based on how wealthy or poor they may be as it is to deny someone a job based on their skin color. I think that if all things are equal, it would be more fair to flip a coin or do 'rock paper scissors' than to use race or socio-economic status or any other distinguishing characteristics to determine who gets the job, college admission, etc. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "A list of successful blacks is actually indicative that the problems caused > by prejudice and racism have not been solved to the point where they can now > be ignored." > > In your eyes it may show that. > > To me, it points out the hypocrisy of saying someone is going to be poor or > not successful because of their skin color. > > There are a multitude of successful minorities, many of which are at the top > of the profession they have chosen. If blacks or other minorities were > currently oppressed, there wouldn't be any to make a list of. > > > I am still waiting on evidence that affirmative action is still needed. > > There is a certain irony that if progressive hero Woodrow Wilson would not > have been elected, things would have progressed better than they have: > > Woodrow was only the 2nd Democrat elected after the Civil War and the first > from the South. After election, a Jim Crow style of regulation took over > the Federal government. Agencies that had been desegregated since the end > of the Civil War were re-segregated. This includes the use of cafeterias > and bathrooms. Many Black Managers were demoted or fired and no white was > allowed to report to a black manager. Wilson's praise of the film "Birth of > a Nation", a film that glorified the KKK calling them heroes instead of the > enforcement arm of the Southern Democratic party, helped the film become a > blockbuster. It also helped the KKK become a powerful political entity and > spread its influence to Northern and Midwestern states > > > So, after this, there was no doubt that affirmative action was needed. In > my opinion, the time has passed. If it wasn't, there is not way a Black > man would be sitting in the Oval Office. > > If affirmative action does have to exist, it should be strictly based on > economics. As Judah asked, ""How do you determine your ethnicity? When the > census form comes to you, how do you go about figuring out what to put > down?" There is too much potential for confusion and misinterpretation. > With economics, there is not. > > > > J > > - > > The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are > willing to work and give to those who would not. I think myself that we have > more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on > the labor of the industrious. - Thomas Jefferson > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323442 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
