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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (244840)	4/3/2002 12:24:17 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

AA I just chanced upon the story, but living here in So. Cal. I do remember it. The story and conclusion were the author's and I thought pointed up the political fodder that AA has come to be. Affirmative action laws were not put in place to institute bias but rather to eliminate it. Were the law not in place at the time of the incident you posted, the black guy would have had no chance at all of getting in med school. AA did institutionalize bias. That black guy could have gone to medical school somewhere else perhaps and as the story goes might have found something more suitable. I might trust a reasonable person like yourself to make some decisions that are affirmative in nature, based on face to face, but I'm opposed to laws and regulations that establish bias based on race. Sooner or later we have to move on.