rightwinger
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Affirmative action bases opportunities on race primarily or in other words on the color of skin and not the content of one's character or one's abilities. I don't believe MLK ever envisioned reverse discrimination or an America where Americans of all colors felt entitlement based upon there backgrounds.
Affirmative action is not fair but was a necessary step towards equal opportunity. When I started working in the late 70s there were strict affirmative action thresholds for hiring and promotions. Those thresholds led to many underqualified people being hired and promoted.
But you have to consider the times. If a white employer is offered a choice between a white and a black he would tend to favor the white candidate due to cultural familiarity and preference. White employers could always justify why blacks were not being hired. The result was a glass wall preventing blacks from being hired. Afirmative action quotas forced those arbitrary walls to be removed
Now, affirmative action is more about equal opportunities and access rather than strict numerical quotas. Afirmative action was not fair, but it did result in the increased numbers of black executives, managers, professional sports managers, doctors and lawyers
Sure your right, when are whites going to recieve the weighted scores on their SAT scores? Since Asians score on average 50 something points higher. There is some socio-economical disadvantages that whites have to overcome, that their Asian counterparts don't have to overcome.
I agree
Everyone picks on whites, that is why they are so disadvantaged in our society