Posted on 01/13/2012 2:44:23 PM PST by reaganaut1
I think the best reason to do away with affirmative action, is because it should never have been implemented in the first place.
You don’t make things right by making things biased in a new direction.
You make things right by providing equal earned opportunity.
If blacks didn’t attend college on a representative basis, then I think it would have been reasonable to research why, and put in place things to help, “IF” it could be shown bias or something unreasonable stood in their way.
Look, if 10% of college students were white, and the white populace made up 70% of the college age kids, I think it would be reasoned to try to find out why. By the same token, if 10% of the populace is black, I would like to think 7 to 13% of the college students were black.
If it could be shown that blacks didn’t attend based in large part on choice, then nothing should be done even if their participation got down to zero percent.
I also support hiring on the merits. Whatever scores and qualifications stand out, that person should get the position. We cannot compete with people from all over the world, if we’re not hiring the best and brightest.
Barack Obama is the best example of that I know of.
MLK to his credit was against Affirmative Action—reluctantly he agreed with the understanding that it should last only 10 years. It should have been done in 1973.
I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the mention.
My take has been that King wouldn’t approve of a lot of things that took place since his death.
I think he’d have a quite a bit to say to blacks today, not all of it very nice.
The out of wedlock birth rates and amount of abortions taking place would bother him IMO. They have sold their birthright.
Look many whites have done this as well, so I’m not singling out blacks other than to address the people whose plight King wanted to improve.
Things being introduced in the early 60s that he might have thought were going to help, have instead been a blight on his people. It’s really to bad too
Look what the race husslers did to poor Bill Cosby when he pointed out that Blacks should go to school and learn to speak right. MLK was about getting a chance—an equal chance—not an edge and a fist full of dollars.
I agree. And as for Bill Cosby, someone desperately needed to say what he did. Too many black leaders and parents have failed their next generation.
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