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To: tejek who wrote (149542)	8/13/2002 10:49:04 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1580276

You're joking. Technically, AA was part of an presidential executive order and it was intended to support the gaols of prior Equal. Opp. and civil rights laws plus make amends for past injustices. In practice, and even to a large extent in theory, it is directly against the idea of not discriminating on the basis of race. If amends where made to a specific individual directly to compensate for specific past injustices then there might be some decent claim for that form of AA being a decent and just system. But instead it creates special favored classes based on race of other criteria. Listen, I am not here to defend AA. If you don't like it, stop whining and get the law changed.......that's what a democracy is all about. Since it is a democracy and not a dictatorship run by me, changing the law is about changing people's perceptions, and lobbying congress and the president and state legislatures and governors, but I'm not a lobbyist and I don't know of any specific AA bill in being considered at this time. Tim