Fenton Lum
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Some folk never grow out of wanting it both ways.It's not government's responsibility to give anyone a hand up though, so, nah.Republican [sic] oppose affirmative action that uses racial quotas as discriminatory.
Actually Republicans started Affirmative Action. Whether you want to count that from the 19th century "forty acres and a mule" incentives of the post-Civil War, or whether you want to count it from Richard Nixon's "Philadelphia Plan" (1969). Both happened to derive from Republicans. Not that that means anything intrinsic to the definition of "Republican" but you seem to like to live by Composition Fallacies so there ya go --- die by one.
Have you ever come across what the rest of us call a "history book"?
That Republicans today oppose the use of racial quotas is not contradicted by Republican desire to give blacks a hand up for the last 150 years.
That's true, but of course the Republican Party of 150 years ago was not only the home of Liberals but also the home of "doing big things with Government", a legacy they carried over from the Whigs --- e.g. Lincoln.
Of course, political parties and what they stand for morphs over the course of 150 years, an inconvenient fact that seems to sail blithely over the OP's hood as he toddles away toddlerically with his Composition Fallacies where terms like "Republican" and "Democrat" are some sort of fixed entities that somehow just stand in one place forever ignoring the effects of time.