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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (158342)1/17/2003 10:12:16 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1575421
 
The point was that disparities in opportunity don't dissapear on their own.

So what? Why SHOULD they disappear at all? Who said everyone has to have the same opportunity? My parents worked hard to give me and my siblings a head start. I've worked hard to give my kids a head start. Why should THAT be taken away from them, for WHATEVER reason? And certainly not on the bogus notion that by discriminating against ME you can cure some wrong done to someone else. The idea is absurd.

<That is why corrective affirmative action is required to resolve the past racially motivated disparities. It's not a stable situation and dragging it out another 50 years will be to nobody's advantage.

Affirmative Action hasn't "corrected" anything yet. All it does is creates a class of people who don't know what it is to work hard to succeed. That's not in ANYONE's interest.

African Americans don't NEED a handout. Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice are the best evidence of this fact. African Americans can and will excel -- but not if they receive preferential treatment.

Anyone who would support the concept of Affirmative Action clearly could never understand why it is wrong. If you have to stop and think about it, I'd say you're just not capable of comprehending what's wrong with it. The wrong is obvious.
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