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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (119412)	12/25/2000 1:21:49 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 769667

Preferences aren't going to be successful unless you deal with the problems of disruptive families, drug abuse, tolerance of neighborhood crime, and poor educational systems. You also now have the problem of unaffordable housing in urban centers. NYC reported a sharp jump in homeless this week. It's ironic that affirmative action is being pushed at the same time that the same administration has greatly increased immigration to fill jobs ahead of those same people.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (119412)	12/26/2000 12:53:59 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 769667

--One could also argue that the preferences given to African-Americans is to compensate them for 350 years of discrimination and injustice. -- your ilk discusses blacks as if they're the only group who has ever been persecuted. in a macro perspective of human history, slavery and discrimination are more the norm than the anomaly. why does your ilk keep seeing the black experience in america as some kind of an exception to the overall human experience? what about the tribal leaders in africa who sold the slaves to the 'white man' (arabs too)? should we go back and force their ancestors to pony up for some of the compensation? how about japanese-americans? i'll tell you one thing, the aboriginals are sure getting sick of all of the whining by (some of) and on behalf of the 'african-americans.' all of your policies aimed at righting past wrongs do no such thing; they simply divide and conquer; something your ilk is fully aware of but will never, ever admit. andy