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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (88943)	11/20/2004 5:41:14 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I would agree that liberals went overboard on entitlements. Condi Rice, Colin Powell and Clarence Thomas have benefitted from affirmative action. It is difficult to know at what point programs that started out doing good have outlived their usefulness, and begin discriminating against people from groups that weren't eligible for them. The issue is complicated further by the fact that while the educated black class is much larger now, the black underclass still needs enormous help from something or someone if they are going to heal and make it out of poverty and despair. The idea that affirmative action should be need based seems to be a good one. I was being facetious in that post, because I am a little puzzled by/tired of all of a sudden being labeled as a racist myself only because I am apparently belong to the same political party as those two misguided cartoonists. I am sure Condi can take care of herself, anyway. This incident is something she tells and retells in interviews, apparently quite proud of it. I think it sounds a bit cold, bitchy and classist myself: --Condi likes simple gold jewelry--and it has to be the real thing. When a clerk in an expensive store once pulled out a drawer of costume jewelry after Condi asked to see the real deal, Condi had a quick retort that she repeats often in interviews: "Let's get one thing straight. You're behind the counter because you have to work for $6 an hour. I'm on this side asking to see the good jewelry because I make considerably more." member.compuserve.com