It seems strange to me that we would want to endorce a problem that is clearly unfair. Diveristy is a good thing, and it is a good thing to hear the view points of different people with different backgrounds, but is it fair to not allow one person with better grade not into an institution in favor of someone else on the basis of race? Simply because something is legally acceptable doesn't mean that you should do it, or that it makes sense. How can we think we as a society say that you should get a present advantage because of …
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How can someone request eqality and then demand an advantage on the basis of skin color, race or gender?
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Although it is true that our society was once based on racism, we cannot justify racism on today's world. And surely we cannot allow racism to be endorsed by our government, at any level. I'm sorry that all the horrible things that white people ever did to everyone else, even though I had nothing to do with it. Do I seem to be "doing OK" because I can spell the word you? Or because I can exprss myself without resorting to profanity? Is it because I can control my anger at a world that appears unfair to me? Or is simply …
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Chressfrog. You seem to assume that affirmative action is the only way to achieve this better plateu. There does seem some indication in your previous note that anyone who does not support affirmative action is a bigot. Do we have to have affirmative action to have a whole nation, certainly not. In fact, affirmative action seems to be a broken solution. Perhaps we should repair it and not abandon it, but we need to do one or the other. Someon asserted earlier that white women are the biggest reciepients of affirmative action. But how can this not be an indication that …
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