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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (3758)	1/28/2001 11:39:49 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 82486

I mean by that, that I'd be glad to pay taxes to fund tutoring or other remedial educational programs designed to help blacks or other disadvantaged citizens qualify for jobs or entry into schools that their history has left them disproportionately excluded from. To help people to compete on an equal, non-racial footing. I can agree that as a solution. It's equivalent to giving special help to a kid who is having trouble with, say, spelling. But I don't favor legislating that jobs or slots in schools be given to people who are less qualified than someone else. That to me is simply committing racism in the guise of eliminating it. It is as evil and immoral as the situation it is intended to eliminate. What that does over time is leave qualified blacks who've earned their resumes the old fashioned way with devalued, sceptically-received, credentials. Exactly.