Affirmative Action: Does It Do More Harm Than Good?

If you're not a U.S. citizen, you may not have even heard the term "affirmative action" before, or if you have you may not understand what it means.

Basically, back in the heyday of the black civil rights movement, a set of laws were passed under the heading "Affirmative Action" designed to force businesses and institutions in the private sector to show that they weren't discriminating against blacks by enforcing hiring quotas, admission quotas, and so on.

Now that it's been shown that a black man can even rise to the office of the Presidency, many are wondering if it's time for the government to get out of the enforced equality business.

Some would even argue that AA is dysfunctional such that if one sees a black person in a responsible position they wonder whether they got the job fairly by deserving it or unfairly through AA.

Others would argue that all the AA hand-holding isn't even good for blacks seeking jobs, an education, and to belong to agencies having to justify their stats to AA bureaucrats. They argue that the time is ripe for minorities, but especially blacks, to sand on their own feet and without the crutch of AA.

What do you think?

Tags: action, affirmative

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Permalink Reply by SteveInCO on March 6, 2013 at 8:45pm

I believe that it's considered analogous to the example that a drop of sewage in a barrel of wine--turns the barrel into sewage.

Disgusting comparison, but I think that's what the racists are thinking.

I said what I did about the president being half white just to cause some cognitive dissonance somewhere if it is needed.

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Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on March 6, 2013 at 5:56am

I'm guessing this thread is gonna get out of hand in fairly quick order.

I would suggest everyone take a deep breath before continuing.

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