Getting rid of affirmative action would actually help the black community? Where did affirmative action fail? Was it when some white person somewhere had a point to prove so they simply hired the worst black candidate they could find? Is this why it doesn’t work?

And as far as your last statement goes, what has been done to the black community was a crime. It was a crime by this government and this society that has never been addressed. If you had studied so much black history you would know this.

Peace

Now to your response I don’t think restoring the black community harms whites in anyway, but that is just the thing, Affirmative Action is failing a lot more than it is succeeding and definitely not helping the black community.

Getting rid of it would help the black community a little bit just like that, and then some other solution could be worked out(obviously the few times it does work isn’t worth the backlash from the white community).

Now about you last statement, punishment for a crime is meant to be discriminatory otherwise it wouldn’t be a punishment or a type of discipline.

But it is a matter of justice that when a wrong is performed, steps have to be made to restore justice, balance, and fairness. If a government spends generations harming the black community with institutionalized slavery, Jim Crow laws, separate and far less than equal facilities for education, then it is only natural that the government make as much an effort to make the black community whole again. Your white pride has made you the one that is so ignorant that you think restoring the black community equates to discriminating against white people. You would have no trouble singling a person out who commits murder for punishment. What’s the problem here?

Peace

Like it our not, AA is not only discriminating against whites but also blacks or any minority that benefits from it because it SINGLES PEOPLE OUT, which is what discrimination means.

and basically what you all are saying in your posts is that since in the past whites had privilege, now today minorities need to have the privilege.

Designating spots to anyone is wrong, period!!!!!!!

You are damned right. The stupid part is how they continue to have the audacity to claim something is being “stolen” from their community. When they have the majority of EVERYTHING. Let one black person get something and they complain. They are more than willing to explain how a company in a culturally diverse area could possibly have all white employees. But see how fast they complain if that same company says 10 of the jobs will be designated for minorities. And I don’t know what stupid pill they take but minority DOES NOT mean black. It means anyone not considered white EXCEPT white women who are also considered minority. GEEZ!

C,

You are so correct. These stereotypes are so far ingrained it is almost as if it is now a part of their bodies functions like breathing or eating. What I see is a spoiled brat. They have had everything geared towards them for centuries and now that mommy says they have to share. The screaming, kicking and crying begins.

It is shameful

Folks’ll say, that’s not what was meant. But that’s exactly what is meant because this idea is so ingrained in our psyches- it almost goes unnoticed.

Unless one is of color, and has to explain everything they get. People want to know and make up stories, “How did they get that?”

“How’d they get that over me?”

i don’t understand why it is hard to understand.

-For centuries everything is geared toward and for the benefit of certain white races (because Jewish became white recently, and the Irish, and let’s not forget how horribly Italians were treated until recently).

-For about 30 years of those centuries, some people who were not white received help to get educations, jobs, housing because as much as the majority say there’s no racism and that they’re not racist, this same majority had to be forced by law to include folks of other races in its doings and practices.

-For those same 30 years, many, many white people have complained about the unfairness of this- calling it reverse racism (lame).

So that’s why scholarships go to those who would otherwise be denied an education. Because everything beyond the scholarship consists of such economic disparity, the scholarship is necessary.

Great post. i’ve seen you break it down a million times BrotherPeaceMaker. Why’s it so hard to understand? That’s what drives me mad. What is everyday for me is just so unknowable to the privileged, majority mindset. i almost lose hope.