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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (149522)8/12/2002 6:16:40 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1580262
 
As late as the fifties there
were convenants in many cities not allowing blacks to live in certain neighborhoods.

And making these covenants illegal has nothing to do with AA.

Don't tell me laws weren't needed to approximate equal results. And disastrous results did not result from
instituting these laws. On the contrary, without these laws, disastrous results would have been guaranteed.

You talk about bad conditions decades ago and then imply that AA cured them or at least made them a lot better. In doing this you are failing to consider that most of the laws that had a major effect where not affirimitive action laws. Also you don't consider non legal sources for change like a reduced amount of discrimination against minorities and generations of minorities building apon the progress of previous generations.

So you should be grateful for Equal Opp. and AA but instead you complain and want to dismantle these laws before the job is done. Go figure!

Your lumping Equal Opp. and AA together but they are two different things. One says you can't discriminate based on things like race. The other tries for a "make up"/reverse discrimination. One has produced some good at the cost of some freedom. The other has almost entirly negative results.

Tim
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