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To: greenspirit who wrote (119437)	12/25/2000 7:14:16 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

<<I also believe it's true that racism still exists in America,>> To some extent, but in the Illinois regional office of State Farm over 50% of the executives will fit in the minority class, many of them women. Very high paying jobs, mostly held by minorities and women. Several cases both. Then again I can't even get an application for a state job because I'm a white male.

To: greenspirit who wrote (119437)	12/25/2000 10:01:59 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769667

I think that was intended as a defense of affirmative action. Right? Because this rant is based on that assumption. How about: Two wrongs don't make a right. Jim Crow was racist. Affirmative action is racist. Replacing one form of racism with its opposite doesn't make the second morally correct. It's still racist. We all have different forms of handicaps relative to other people. Shall we all be granted legal remedy for this? Who shall weigh what form of compensation each shall get? And since all will have to get something (we all have different abilities and disabilities), why not eliminate the legal differentials and treat all equally? And where does affirmative action stop? Lani Guanier (remember her?) proposed that the votes of blacks should count more heavily than the votes of whites as compensation for slavery. And truly take on the creed of Martin Luther King, that every person be measured by the content of his character, instead of the color of his skin. My ONLY problem with that is that after his assassination, this was turned into affirmative action. If we can find reasonable ways to help out black men who seek to take on the responsibilities of father. Fine. But affirmative action is not reasonable. It is the very thing MLK campaigned against. I also believe it's true that racism still exists in America, and honest hard working black men have a steeper hill to climb in regard to breaking down barriers to better paying jobs. What about caucasians born into deprivation? Are they less deserving of help? A common argument in defense of affirmative action is that it is compensation for slavery. That argument is its own answer. That makes affirmative action a disgiused form of a bill of attainder and therefore both morally wrong and unconstitutional.