Article from Boston.com November 15th, 2008
Obama is for Affirmative Action. But he admits his children is are well-off and shouldn't be one of the people who are affected by affirmative action. Here we see that the socio-economics plays a more important deciding factor than race---in my opinion.
"But the relevant question is not what America might do for the Obama girls, but what they could one day do for an increasingly diverse nation where by 2050 "minorities" will make up more than half of the population, according to Census Bureau predictions."
Are we going to keep helping only the minority, even if they aren't minorities anymore? Or should we be making possibilities available to everyone?
"Time is running out - at least legally. In 2003, then-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor set a clock ticking when she wrote the Grutter v. Bollinger ruling. The court defended the University of Michigan's "narrowly-tailored use of race" in its law school admissions process as a means of creating a diverse student body. The caveat: "The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."
25 years?! That seems quite a long time for the justice and equality we should already have.
I know I have been focusing on admissions, were I strongly believe that against Affirmative Action, but I wonder how others feel about it in the work place. Is it still necessary there? Is racism a big enough factor for employers to discriminate? (Just saying that makes me think not). I know Dateline (or some other primetime news channel) once did a "study" when they had similarly qualified applicants apply for the same job, but one was more attractive than the other. If I remember correctly the more attractive applicant got the job all, or at least most of the time. Do you think the same would go for race, even if the minority is more qualified? I'm not completely sure about this area of Affirmative Action.
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I wonder how the Census Bureau compiles these seemingly bogus projections. What next, by the year 2050 more than half of the US population will believe in aliens?
AA in the workplace is just another way for the government to gain control of every aspect of our lives. Boo to that. Boo!!!
Is someone bitter?
Nah.
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