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To: TimF who wrote (149487)	8/12/2002 12:14:02 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580148

The response to the riots in the 60s was equal opportunity laws, which while I think are wrong in principle (when applied to the private sector), I agree had a calming effect on racial tensions and help reduced the level of discrimination that minorities face in the US. Affirmative actions laws are even worse in principle, and don't have the positive practical effect to make up for that fact. Tim, AA is the implementation arm of the equal opp. laws. It directly results from and is in answer to the 60's racial riots. It took the burning of American cities for white people to do the right thing. People don't burn cities when they are happy; they burn them because they are p*ssed. The original 1964 Equal Opp. law was not enough.......AA was the next step up. Again, you want riots in the streets, kill AA. Fifty years after the passage of the Equal Opp. laws, of all people below the poverty limits, the greatest percentage are people of color, the lowest paid people in our society are people of color; the poorest sections of our cities are inhabited by people of color; the shortest life spans in this country are people of color. You all want to convince yourselves that whitie is getting screwed under AA, go for it. But don't forget LA rioted just ten years ago. ted