What the heck is up with this?

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Ohhhhh like that discrimination enterprise known as Affirmative Action?

Quotas may be discriminatory....Affirmative Action is not, by any stretch of the law.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

Quotas may be discriminatory....Affirmative Action is not, by any stretch of the law.

Affirmative Action is one of the most discriminatory policies every enacted. It should be outlawed. I wonder what the Supreme Court thinks about it? And in 50 years will you still support it?

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Affirmative Action is one of the most discriminatory policies every enacted. It should be outlawed. I wonder what the Supreme Court thinks about it? And in 50 years will you still support it?

The Supreme Court has probably upheld more Affirmative Action cases than it has rejected...the rejections being of those that crossed the line on quotas.

When institutional racism or racial preference favoring the majority, either by design or default, is eliminated....then Affirmative Action and remedies like this one in Port Chester (where White voting blocks have, in effect, prevented Hispanic representation on the town council) will no longer be needed.

50 years? I hope it less than that.

At the same time, IMO, some Affirmative Action programs should never end.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Redux

Quotas may be discriminatory....Affirmative Action is not, by any stretch . . .

It constitutes synthetic prejudice, even by the making of law to legalize prejudices. It is not more attractive than the homemade variety -- to those of us blessed with principle.

It should receive little to no defense.

The concept of "institutional racism" is devoutly believed in by -- certain people. It is promulgated by hustlers. This fact taints it.

People of principle neither practice nor credit "institutional racism." The hustlers cannot admit this without joining the swollen ranks of the unemployed. Their Jesse Jackson-style shakedowns would quit working as the leaves from the money-tree stop falling.

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

It constitutes synthetic prejudice, even by the making of law to legalize prejudices. It is not more attractive than the homemade variety -- to those of us blessed with principle.

It should receive little to no defense.

The concept of "institutional racism" is devoutly believed in by -- certain people. It is promulgated by hustlers. This fact taints it.

People of principle neither practice nor credit "institutional racism." The hustlers cannot admit this without joining the swollen ranks of the unemployed. Their Jesse Jackson-style shakedowns would quit working as the leaves from the money-tree stop falling.

I would agree that institutional racism has all but been eliminated, due in part to federal anti-discrimation legislation, administrative remedies, and effective AA programs. However, inadvertant or unintended discrimination still exists in the workplace and in various ways in communities across the country, as was evident in Port Chester, where the White majority effectively kept minorities off the town council.

The Voting Right Act provides reasonable remedies that give no additional rights to minorities or take any rights away from the White majority.

And just for the record, all affirmative action is NOT race based.

IMO, the most successful AA program has been the Title 9 program to end gender discrimination in higher education athletics.

High school girls now have reasonable (not equal) acess to athletic scholarships and womens college athletic programs now have more (not equal) funding.

As a result, some guys suffered...high school boys missed out on scholarships... and minor mens sports programs experienced program cuts.

Shall we return to the good ole days and send girls back to home ec class instead of the athletic playing field?

I am thankful that you dont represent the majority. The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and other anti-discrimation legislation PROTECTS minorities and women from narrow-minded, backward-looking folks like you.