[Nuc 1.1]

Affirmative action is important to Al. He knows that with black unemployment at 25%, without affirmative action it would be at 50% or more. The Government does not hire blacks because they are competent. They hire them because they are required to. They establish quota’s they have to fill they lower the standards until they can fill those quota’s.

I know many blacks who are brilliant. Good, wonderful people. Let's keep it aboveboard.

[okie01]

I know many blacks who are brilliant. Good, wonderful people. Let's keep it aboveboard.

And affirmative action policies do a disservice to their abilities and accomplishments.

The fact of the matter is that affirmative action policies mean, by definition, that less worthy blacks will achieve positions they are not qualified for and accomplished blacks will not get full credit for their achievements.

Affirmative action policies are no less toxic than Jim Crow policies.

[Venturer]

I know many of them too, unfortunately they are a minority in the minority. If they weren’t we wouldn’t need Affirmative action. That is as above board as I can get.