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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (119345)	12/24/2000 10:23:21 PM
From: D. Long	of 769667

"You can't have it both ways. If affirmative action is discriminatory, then so are veterans benefits. You argue veterans benefits are a condition of employment but many veterans benefits are awarded after the service, not before as a recognition of service. Affirmative action is a recognition of past discrimination and its effect on successive generations. I agree with Colin Powell about affirmative action. You apparently disagree with him" This boils down to a question of arbitrariness. Affirmative Action is arbitrary, veterans benefits are not. We would not consider membership in Veterans of Foreign Wars to be arbitrary because it requires veteran status. We would consider membership in a country club to be arbitrary if it required one to be white. One has an objective standard, veteran's status, which is an earned benefit and is a value we as a society feel should be rewarded. One is arbitrary and unearned, namely the color of the skin one was born with. Veterans deserve the status because they have performed certain actions which earn the merit. The color of one's skin is not earned and any preferential treatment is undeserved. Affirmative Action is fundamentally racist. Its implicit premise is blacks are naturally inferior and incapable of achievement on the merit of their own intelligence and need a helping hand from whitey. Our society would be better served by addressing the root of the real inequalities by such mechanisms as school vouchers, which would allow black children who want to learn to go to schools that are conducive to learning. As opposed to gang battlegrounds and inner city social experiments. Its instructive that Al Sharpton is opposed to vouchers, while sending his children to private school. Here's a hometown example. A buddy of mine had a C average in high school (I had a B average) and got 300 points lower in his SAT than I did. We applied to the same college at the same time for the same semester. He got admitted on fast track, I had to wait for an opening. He's Vietnamese. Is this justice, to either party? What kind of message does this convey? Derek

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