Affirmative Action - outdated?

[midnight Target]

From the article I linked earlier:

Contrast MacKenzie High School in Detroit, where word processing courses are taught without word processors because the school cannot afford them, or East St. Louis Senior High School, whose biology lab has no laboratory tables or usable dissecting kits, with nearby suburban schools where children enjoy a computer hookup to Dow Jones to study stock transactions and science laboratories that rival those in some industries. Or contrast Paterson, New Jersey, which could not afford the qualified teachers needed to offer foreign language courses to most high school students, with Princeton, where foreign languages begin in elementary school.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY?

[LoneStarBuckeye]

Equal opportunity is a myth.  The best we can hope for is providing most with an opportunity that passes for acceptable.  Moreover, there are many factors much more important than the condition of your high school's science lab for which no amount of money can compensate, such as the quality of one's parents and the interest they take in his or her education and upbringing.

- JNOV

[Masherbrum]

Another stupid troll.  You boys will NEVER learn, will you.

Karaya2

[Dowding (Work)]

ridiculous? You are one of them (not to mention Boroda).

lol Mietla! You really think I was serious? Tell me you're kidding, right!?

I was following the mood of the thread, fool.

If anything I'm a moderate liberal. But I'm left-leaning in some ways, nationalistic and conservative in others. I guess I don't fit any real 'pigeonhole'. Sorry to disappoint you.

[StSanta]

AA is discrimination.

You have two individuals, one better qualified than the other. yet you choose the lesser qualified based on race.

It's a very clear case of racism.

It's an attempt to correct a disparity. But using a racist method to do so is not my idea of progress.

I hope they win the lawsuits.

[gofaster]

Originally posted by 2Slow
No where on my resume is my race stated.  In the service one had to check off your race type on promotion tests.  One was assured that this had no bearing on you promotion, it was for statistical purposes.

I always checked the "other" box and wrote in patriot, Martian, or something else.

I used to do the same thing when I would fill out forms in high school and college.  Sometimes I'd check "white, non hispanic", sometimes I'd check "Native American", and then there was the all-inclusive "Other".  Nowadays, I don't even bother.

[mietla]

Originally posted by Dowding (Work)
lol Mietla! You really think I was serious? Tell me you're kidding, right!?

I was following the mood of the thread, fool.

If anything I'm a moderate liberal.

A liberal, a commie, same thing. Different stages of the same disease.


P.S. I avoid using smilies in my posts.

[mietla]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
What utter BS.


Your saying a kid borne to black parents in a poor neighborhood, should not get the same money from the state, as a white kid borne in a rich area.

I do not think everyone should drive the same car or make the same money, but we should all at least start on equal ground, and right now kids in poor areas do not have the same opportunities as kids borne in other areas.  Not just in the school system, but the school system can be changed. can be changed and should be.  I am talking about Grade/ and High school.

This is not about politics it is just right and wrong.





Miko,
 I am not even going to waste my time...

Miko has put his viewpoint very eloquently, take it apart and engange his arguments.

I guess it was just an emotion on your side, no reason.

[GtoRA2]

I will not waste my time on either of you. I can see from you other posts your not worth the time.

I did get a kick out of you calling me a commie....

I am a pretty conservative guy.

Believe what you want, I will do the same.

( I know your going to come back with the same old, stuff, blah name calling no real argument etc. You started the name calling, and calling someone a commie in my book is pretty bad. )

[mietla]

you are right, good day,

[mrfish]

minorities will never be taken seriously until affirmative action is done away with. you just don't respect someone the same when they are playing the same game as you but with a handicap or a headstart - whether they deserve it or not.