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Affirmative Action

Discussion in 'The Dungeon' started by Dutch, Apr 22, 2014.

  1. Dutch

    Dutch Token white guy

  2. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Like unions - it had a place and time and those are both past.

    Plenty of laws in place to combat what AA was trying to do.
     
  3. 2blueYam

    2blueYam Track Day Addict

    I find it interesting that the people complaining about this decision talk about the fact that it takes away a level playing field. I think it restores a level playing field. Why should a rich African American woman from a fancy suburban neighborhood have an admissions advantage over a poor white kid from inner city Baltimore? I know both of those are minorities, but it just favors one minority over another in that case.

    If they want to base it on socioeconomic factors, I am OK with that to a point as those areas do need role models so that others see that there is hope for a better life. Race and gender should not be part of the equation.

    In the end, this decision did not end AA, it only said that voters are allowed to end it at the state level for state related and controlled processes. It will be interesting to see if the rollback of AA continues elsewhere and what the impact of that would be.
     
  4. Clay

    Clay Well-Known Member

    AA, racism at its best!
     
  5. Stirz

    Stirz Makes my butt look big

    When I lived in Louisiana, the last census showed that the minority had become the majority in the Parish. Local agencies moved to stop their AA programs as a result, partly because of the increased project costs of the program, and partly because it was no longer 'valid' under census guidelines. The (former) minority community went ape shit over that one.
     
  6. tzrider

    tzrider CZrider

    I agree about the current form of Unions need to change. AA still has its place in certain circumstances. It's a long term investment that is evidently a hard sell...
     
  7. STT-Rider

    STT-Rider Well-Known Member

    Example?
     
  8. In Your Corner

    In Your Corner Dungeonesque Crab AI Version

    It's a hard sell because it's unconstitutional.
    Dress it up any way you want, you are offering benefits to people based on race alone.
     
  9. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    I'm going to start claiming that I am not only African-American, but I also have full-body vitiligo.

    Pay me, bitch!! :D
     
  10. In Your Corner

    In Your Corner Dungeonesque Crab AI Version

  11. Steeltoe

    Steeltoe What's my move?

    I know a number of white people who got minority scholarships to historically black colleges. Whose bitching about that?
     
  12. Slider82

    Slider82 Well-Known Member

    Sounds like you are.
     
  13. In Your Corner

    In Your Corner Dungeonesque Crab AI Version

    Well, they kind of have to let a few whities in.

    Besides, what does that have to do with racial preferences?
     
  14. pickled egg

    pickled egg Tell me more

    Hey, 2%! Whose side are you on? :confused:
     
  15. Fonda Dix

    Fonda Dix Well-Known Member

    I support AA but along class lines, not racial lines.

    I see a poor white Appalachian child no differently than a poor black boy from Detroit.

    As it was, a wealthy black kid could get assistance just for being black. That is not acceptable in my opinion.
     
  16. duck62

    duck62 V7 Scooter

    Good riddance! Maybe....
     
  17. Sheik Abdul ben Falafel

    Sheik Abdul ben Falafel Well-Known Member

    I think that is how it should be.
     
  18. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    I was born a poor black child.
     
  19. Sheik Abdul ben Falafel

    Sheik Abdul ben Falafel Well-Known Member

    did your dad drop you off at the pool? :D
     
  20. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    Nope. He told my Mom, "don't flush it, it's got legs."
     

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