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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (381204)4/29/2008 2:27:33 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1574848
 
Most grew up in poverty, crime and the worst schools imaginable. They never got a chance to get to "affirmative action".

The entire point of affirmative action was to give these very people a chance to make a life for themselves. That many did so is suggestive that it WAS not only possible, but readily doable, for those who were determined to make it happen.

Look, I don't dismiss the point. These peoples' lives were made more difficult by the slavery that ended 150 years ago.

But Buchanan is right -- this country has done more for this group of people -- the ones who are alive today -- than any other nation has done for its black population.
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