Hey folks,I saw this article last night, and it’s just sticking in my head. It’s from the AP, reprinted on Newsmax.com,
Newsmax.com-"Mich. to Delay Affirmative Action Ban"
"Michigan's three top-tier universities can continue using race and gender in admissions and financial aid awards through the current admission cycle, under an agreement proposed Monday.
A ballot measure passed Nov. 7 bars public universities and governments from using affirmative action in admissions and hiring. The law was to take effect Saturday, but the state and a group seeking to throw out the law agreed to delay it."
STOP!! Translation time. It was on the ballot. People VOTED for it. This was not some attempt by some judge or group to further agenda. It may have started this way. But it was put to the people. The people voted. They WANT to do away with Affirmative Action. But the reason for the delay, is understandable,
"The University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University had sought more time to implement some of those changes since they're already accepting new students for admission next fall.
The universities want to complete this year's admissions and financial aid cycles using the same standards that have been in place since the process began earlier this year. Those cycles, which end in May 2007 or later, mostly affect students who would enter college in fall 2007."
Now the definition of racism according to Wikipedia
When racism, a belief, is applied in practice, it takes forms such as prejudice, discrimination, segregation or subordination. Racism can more narrowly refer to a system of oppression, such as institutional racism.Institutional racism (or structural racism or systemic racism) is a theoretical form of racism that occurs in institutions such as public bodies and corporations, including universities. The term was coined by black nationalist, pan-Africanist and honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party Stokely Carmichael. In the late 1960s, he defined the term as "the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin".[1]
OK, now what is Affirmative Action? Affirmative Action is supposed to be a program designed to end racism, but isn't it really justifying racism by it's own actions. Yet it judges and awards people solely on skin color and gender. That is discrimination in itself. This can not be an affirmative program if there is a form of discrimination involved. Instead of choosing a candidate for a job or for school admission, because of one's color or gender, it should be because of their talents and abilities.
As a great man once said, "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King.Imagine if you would if three people took a test to get into an University. The White male get’s 60%, the Woman get’s 80%, and the Black male aces it. The White male get’s in. "That is the whole reason for Affirmative Action. That use to happen all the time." Your right. It did. It was wrong and needed to be fixed. So NOW the White male aces it. The Black male get’s a 80, and the Woman get’s a 60. The Black man and the Woman get’s in. This is NOT racism and discrimination? Of course it is.
Everyone has the opportunity to advance in this country, you just have to take the initiative. It SHOULD be the best person for the job, the best qualified to get in to the University, what they can do, NOT what they look like. If you truly want equality, then you have to do away with ANY form of reward or penalty base on race or sex. Let the better person get the job, position in school, ETC. I bet if you put this on a national ballot, you would have the same result. It would be voted to END Affirmative Action. As well it should be.
Peter
2 comments:
For 50 years minorities have been allowed to vote. People don’t realize that races don’t mix together and survive. That’s why they have latino, black, asian and white neighborhoods. They don’t have non-discrimintory neighborhoods anywhere in America. Races of people survive by being racist and huddling together as a group. Look at the prison system, that is a perfect example of what is going on in society in general. The pathetic thing is to see all these employment forms that seem to be neutral but when you apply you don’t get hired because you’re a white male. Neutrality is always a cover to decieve people of the real agenda. If America gets nuked by terrorist and law and order break down you can bet mexicans will be killing white men like nazis did to jews.
Hey Anonymous, Welcome to the OPN,
I have no idea what voting rights have to do with anything. I guess I completely miss your point there. I disagree that “races don’t mix together and survive.” We have TRULY become the melting pot of the world. We have a litany of mixes. It’s becoming harder and harder to say, “pure bread.” More and more people are growing up a true mix of heritage and culture.
This is why we need to start treating everyone equally. To say little Johnny Jackson can't go where others go, because he doesn’t look the way they do, is discrimination and racism. But to say my Son Joshua cannot get into a college, because they “need" a Black student, IS discrimination and racism. They should BOTH be given the opportunity. If there is only one opening available, then the one who scores highest on the entry exam should get it. That’s fair.
I understand your point about the neighborhoods. “Little China,” “Little Italy,” ETC.. I do not think ANYONE says we WANT to live in slums like Harlem, but it’s human nature to want to be around your own kind. I have no problem with the CHOICE that some make to live amongst their own. The Polish, Spanish, and so on. But it crosses the line when what they do and where they go is controlled by law. If My Son Joshua IS left out based SOLELY on the color of his skin, that is EXACTLY what Affirmative Action is suppose to protect people from.
“Look at the prison system, that is a perfect example of what is going on in society in general.” I party agree. I lay part of the blame on the “self appointed Leaders” contiguously telling their people that they are nothing and cannot ever make anything for themselves. Therefore they see no future, so they attempt to make their own.
“The pathetic thing is to see all these employment forms that seem to be neutral but when you apply you don’t get hired because you’re a white male.”
Sometimes, yes.
“Neutrality is always a cover to decieve people of the real agenda. If America gets nuked by terrorist and law and order break down you can bet mexicans will be killing white men like nazis did to jews.”
I take it you are not with the President and those on the Left that want Amnesty? Me neither. If they come here LEGALLY I have no problem. If they come here and their very first act is to violate our laws, I do have a problem with it.
But my point to the whole article, is until we start doing away with preferential treatment of ANY race based solely on the color of their skin, we will continue to have racism, discrimination and hatred amongst the races.
We WERE all one race and one language once, until we screwed up and God separated us. We are coming back together. I see nothing wrong with that.
Peter
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