To: TimF who wrote (176804 ) 10/20/2003 4:28:16 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to I guess you're assuming that C. Powell's will not experience discrimination because they are C. Powell's children. I didn't say they have never faced unfair negative discrimination, but despite that discrimination they had a lot more advantaged then the average person in the US. I don't have any problem with the fact that they had these advantages but I don't see why we should deliberately create more esp at the expense of creating an equivalent disadvantage for someone else. No one can be sure of that given the nature of the American mindsight; hence, they're entitled to any benefits they can derive from AA. Why should the question come up? AA covers both minorities. They would each get equal consideration as well any white candidates for the job. AA is not preferential treatment Rarely, have I seen a white firm or a white male get screwed by AA. The conservatives in this country are making a mountain out of a molehill. Also at some schools the same test levels that would exclude white people from consideration are enough to almost ensure that a black person will be accepted. All I can add is that if you fukk with AA before its goals have been reached, we will pay for that stupidity just like segregationist folk in the 60s paid for their resistance to integration with the riots in our cities. I don't really have much more to say on the subject except that the pie is big enough for all of us.
