Susan says: “sorry fred, but i am not american and the first time i heard of this stupid AA I thought it is the childbirth of PC and white guilt.
In my country and most of continental europe (cannot be sure about UK or France) this would be an abomination.
Creating something like Affirmative action is exactly like claiming that black people are deficient and need a push to be at the level of the others.”
No Susan – I don’t know what European nation you’re from – but it was YOUR peoples who brought slavery to the new world – when they weren’t spreading destruction elsewhere – so – just to quickly educate you on Affirmative Action – we had in America demonstrable discrimination – enforced by law – that kept qualified applicants from many differnet backgrounds out of schools, jobs, the military – whatever. Even after the civil war, blacks were kept out of schools and jobs. to remedy this abomination, we enacted laws that helped push the victims of oppression into schools and jobs. if that sounds to YOU like a diss to black people it’s because
A – you’re not black a woman or a minority of some type
B – you’re ignorant of history
C – discrimination against blacks (and women) sits just fine with you – but the remedy for that discrimination causes a problem. While we all agree that Affirmative action has not been without problems, the CAUSES that brought about that remedy were FAR MORE egregious and FAR more unfair – don’t you think? Or maybe you never had to ride at the back of a bus – nor did you have an application rejected simply because of your color or your gender or your religion…
