Well, I've only been around since the Kennedy administration, so I'm not going to assume responsibility for something I played no part in...
So have I. You have benefitted from what you claim you had no part in and furthermore you're fighting to maintain it.
But it's not. It's putting everyone on a level playing field. How is that bad?
I'll tell you how it's bad: It's bad to colored boys like Essien who believe he should get something for nothing, simply because he wants it. He needs to be "special" because he believes that label will carry benefits with it, despite being his doing nothing to warrant such benefits...
Here we have another cases of white psychosis.
The discomfort whites have in recognizing how they have benefitted from race based law and policy is clear in any discussion a person of color has with a white person on this matter. Do they not understand how long they had laws and policies that existed which shut anyone not white out from opportunity? Do they not understand that by overt practice for at least 189 years whites were hired, promoted admitted into colleges and almost everything else only because of the color of their skin? What the right has done with this policy may be the greatest modern example of both race baiting and race pimping in the history of the United States of America.
I am very serious when I make this comment because I have not ever seen such a great distortion of a policy based upon nothing in my life. I have not in my life seen such a willful refusal to recognize the completeness of American history by one group of people who blatantly do so to gain or maintain the racial preferences they have always been provided. I cannot understand how a group of people who have the most of everything can claim they are being discriminated against. We talk about the need for a conversation. How do you discuss this matter with someone white who ignores all of America history to tell you that whites never had a historical Affirmative Action program?
I have read many interesting things over the years, one is a concept I read in a blog by a writer calling themselves Abagond. It refers to a phenomenon called the
“Teflon Theory of American History.” It makes a lot of sense if you engage whites especially “conservative” whites on issues such as Affirmative Action. The Teflon Theory of American history states:
“That anything that took place over 30 years ago is Ancient History. It has Absolutely No Effect on the present. Or not much. Unless it was something good like the light bulb or the Declaration of Independence. Therefore those who make a big deal of the bad stuff in the past, like slavery, are Living in the Past and need to Get Over It.
Jim Crow laws were overturned by the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Therefore according to Teflon Theory the Jim Crow period is now Ancient History. It has Absolutely No Effect on how White Americans alive today think and act. None whatsoever. Or not much. So racism is pretty much dead.
Instead of Jim Crow’s effect slowly weakening over time like you would expect, Teflon Theory would have you suppose that it just disappeared like magic one afternoon sometime in the late 1960s. Even though many White Americans alive now were alive back in Jim Crow times. Even though many others were brought up and shaped by those who were alive back then: parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, writers, film directors, television producers, news editors and so on.”
Apparently this is what whites think justifies their opposition to Affirmative Action. 188 years of legalized exclusion by race just disappeared in the 1960’s and no one today is impacted by the legacy of that racism. It is amazing to hear and read the illogical rants and so called intellectual arguments of those who oppose affirmative action. For whites to say that it is not right for race to be a consideration for anything when they are where they because race was the only consideration of anything is infuriating. How can anyone white say that when the economic foundation of this country was built upon the exclusion of people based upon skin color?
It's funny how racists see things. They want to return to a system that provided favor to whites which excluded everyone else and they call Affirmative Action discrimination. Discrimination by race is exactly what they support when people start taking about wanting to end Affirmative Action. Because that's what Affirmative Action was made to stop. If not for Affirmative Action we'd still be in a system where only whites got all the jobs, all the admissions, all the contracts and all the promotions with no consideration of merit.
That's essentially what "All lives matter" is saying.
All lives matter. Saying anything else is racist...
No that's not what all lives matter is saying. And this attempt by dumb, low IQ, uneducated white morons trying to create reverse racism where there is none is racist.
