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History Channel Affirmative Action Discussion
HistoryChannel.com ^ | 12/4/02 | History Channel Discussions

Posted on 12/04/2002 2:42:06 PM PST by youngtechster

Should affirmative action play a role in American society? The Supreme Court is to get involved in the affirmative action debate as it plans to rule on whether colleges can use race as a factor in their admissions policies. A number of white applicants to the University of Michigan claim they were turned down because of their race and now the court will rule on whether affirmative action should be a component of higher education admissions. Supporters of affirmative action argue it leads to more representative institutions, while critics claim it is unfair and discriminatory.

Should affirmative action play a role in American society?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; racialpreference
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1 posted on 12/04/2002 2:42:06 PM PST by youngtechster
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To: youngtechster
I think the Dems need to lead by example here. Rather than paying lip service to affirmative action, they ought to take the initiative and incorporate it into their primary system. The percentage of votes received by a candidate would only be one factor and race representation would be the other. Once several of them lose out simply because of their ethnicity they would stop pushing this nonsense. Maybe then they would understand what it is like to be eliminated because of a racial quota that needed to be filled.
2 posted on 12/04/2002 3:21:59 PM PST by lews
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To: lews
Since very few Democrats ARE white males, and since Democrats have long discriminated against, and verbally berated and vilified white males in language that would now often be prohibited under "hate crime" statutes...

I now think they ought to give 15% of the seats in each house of Congress to conservative, native born white males, with no election needed, any more than their favorite minorities needed a brain to get into UCLA.

That's the ticket-- straight into Congress by race alone, no merit needed. That's what Dems believe in, they hate the qualified, want jobs and educations given out "by race alone..."

3 posted on 12/04/2002 3:26:35 PM PST by crystalk
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To: youngtechster
Should a colorblind society heed color?
4 posted on 12/04/2002 4:06:23 PM PST by IronJack
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