Is this my problem? Should my non-minority child lose a chance at advancement for feel good solutions to promote people who are not fully qualified? Should I not get a job because an individual minority in a position of power wants to promote someone of like color?

Can you show ANY evidence that less qualified minorities being hired or promoted is prevalent? I'm sure it happens, (we read about it in the conservative biased media) but is it really a significant issue? How often does it really happen?

More often, a white person with a highschool diploma is hired over a minority with a college degree.

You can't make a playing field level just by saying that's the way it should be. Racists and predjudiced "hirers" and "promoters" will merely continue what they've been doing - discriminating against minorities.

Ok, tell me how you are going to ensure that people are not hiring minorities just to hire them? Because that is the situation we have created. So how do we fix it? How do you stop reverse discrimination from occuring? I have seen it first hand in the military. The people who complained are ignored. The minority boards believe that there is no such a thing as reverse discrimination. Ask any of the black scholars and they will tell you that it cannot even exist. How do you fix this. PUSH and Jessie Jacksons outfit have perfected the minority arm twisting and extortion to ensure that minorities get contracts, even when they may not have been the best choice. There are numerous examples in the press. Kids being denied admission to State owned universities. Firemen being promoted ahead of peers because they are a minority. Where does the PC crap end and merit begin. IMHO the glass ceiling is getting thicker with every PC action like this.

My girlfriend is half mexican. On her tests and college apps and everything else, she gets to mark 'hispanic' and probably gets an advantage over me for it (not that she needs it, shes perfect enough already). Why? Because she's an "underprivelledged minority".

Except shes not. Her family has at least as much money as mine does, her dad works at the same place my dad did (and probably at higher pay), her mother doesnt even need to work, they actually own their house... etc.

Affirmative Action should be based on socioeconomic class, not race. Help the poor people, all of them, not just the ones who arent white, and not the relatively well-off people who also arent white, just on that basis.

Rich people can be very good at hiding money ... as many college financial aid officers can tell you.

Your child should not be held back and rarely will your child ever be. It is just that minority children are at a disadvantage but I personally don't think AA will solve that problem and will only make it worse because it favors racism.

Yes, but how do we deal with this new type of reverse discrimination that has developed. Ignore it? Accept it? I think not.

The reason we have this reverse racism is to cover up a much larger problem. If we focus on that problem, we can eliminate discrimination for both sides.

All AA is doing is getting people pissed off and making it seem like white America "cares" about minorities.

You should have been in the room when I explained to my mother that someone who did not meet their criteria was getting my spot instead because I was white... took a while.
Should have sued now that I know what happened in Texas.
It would have helped others.
It is not "reverse" anything, it is racism against whites and nothing more.
Racism is racism.
We just replaced one with another.

Who here is a minority or has a minority member in their household?

Raise hands.

I'm and atheist and disabled. Hand is up.

PS--

I qualify my own familia with: five Hispanics, three Pakistanis and (god help us) various French-speaking peoples. But, not the French-French--the spat-upon Creole, the Creole, the mothers were hampster's and the father's...well, let's just let bygones be bygones....

Racism my ASS.

rkz--

I see your disability and raise you an atheist.

Some say my 1/4 Native American is enough... I wonder.


I'll see your atheist and see you an atheist Deep Southerner, nuh!

Edit: that was an actor and eats sushi! *hell gets cold*

*raises hands* (one for each child)