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Any thinking person or someone with some historical knowledge knows that the reason so-called affirmative action was created due to real discrimination
Real discrimination?? WTF does that mean?. I agree it was hard for a black to get a good job prior to AA but that's because they weren't qualified. Blacks are stupid - as everyone knows.
Denying jobs to unqualified applicants is how it's supposed to be.
You had to ask me what is real discrimination???
I thought whites were intellectually superior? Anything I say you should immediately grasp since whites are somehow genetically superior....If you must ask, real discrimination is what I would call what my parents and grandparents went through. Segragated bathrooms, water fountains and housing. In the 40's my family were denied positions clearly because they were "colored." Malcolm X, before becoming a prolific speaker, was told as a child (upon stating he wanted to be a lawyer after his white teacher asked him what he wanted to be when he grows up) to be a carpenter since being a lawyer "no place for a ******" this is the clearest example of "real discrimination."
You understand now my genetically superior friend who also asked me to spell it out for him?
Great points, and all true. I can vividly recall when I was in middle school back in the 60's. Being that this was a predominately white school, they had a career advisor on site who would work with kids to help identify what their career aspirations were.
When my day came for my "one on one" with the counselor, before I could express my fascination with business, this counselor began to talk to me about careers in the city sanitation department, and also "encouraged" me to consider taking more shop classes, as opposed to advanced classes in mathematics.
In retrospect, it is no surprise that even though my grades were good enough for me to make the honor society every semester, it was a part of this counselors belief system that I was only capable of performing jobs that did not require more complex skills.
This so called "counselor" did not know that my Father was a school administrator.
So, when I went home that day and told him about my experience, he made a beeline for that counselors office the next morning prior to going to work.
Needless to say I was treated differently by that counselor from that day forward.