When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -Thomas Sowell
The most controversial thing I've ever done was to decide to think with my brain instead of my skin color. - Candace Owens
What kind of country have we become?
One in which federal prosecutors can take “evidence” before a “grand jury,”
and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 91 alleged “crimes”?
And they accomplish that by GUARANTEEING discrimination against white men, in a blatantly unconstitutional manner.
It's no wonder white men dislike the EEOC and Affirmative Action. it forces them to hire someone other than their "good ol boy" friends.
All white people are not friends. White privelige is a myth.
See, the REAL problem is that for a century or more, white males didn't have to worry about competing for jobs with minorities and women. They knew they were a shoo-in thanks to the "good ol boy" network.
Now though, laws have been passed that make simply bypassing minorities and women during the interview process, illegal.
And THAT is what has got so many white men upset...they saw the ease with which their grandparents just cut right to the front of the jobs line, sidestepping any minorities or women on their way to the front, and it angers them that they won't get the same chance to cut in line.
What kind of country have we become?
One in which federal prosecutors can take “evidence” before a “grand jury,”
and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 91 alleged “crimes”?
Race and gender discrimination is not a solution to race and gender dicrimination.
It's not the interview line, it's getting HIRED.
Now though, laws have been passed that make simply bypassing minorities and women during the interview process, illegal.
And THAT is what has got so many white men upset...they saw the ease with which their grandparents just cut right to the front of the jobs line, sidestepping any minorities or women on their way to the front, and it angers them that they won't get the same chance to cut in line.
Revenge is no basis for public policy.
AA is based on the notion of making sure that companies aren't NOT hiring/promoting members of protected classes simply on the basis of their race. There is a HUGE difference between being singled out and rejected SOLELY because of your race and having a program that encourages companies to be aware of their own demographics and to make sure that they are making a 'good faith effort' to not exclude anyone based solely upon one category. Basically, without AA, white men would likely have continued to hire other white men (that's the premise behind the original legislation/action), thus AA was born.
I think people would greatly benefit from reading up on AA before jumping to conclusions based on talking points and media misrepresentations. It's easy to not feel the need to research AA, though...unless you work in the field, it doesn't effect most of us on a regular basis and we tend to think we know how it works because of anecdotal stories and media blurbs. Not trying to knock anyone here at all, I'm just saying it certainly helps when you have a working knowledge of what Affirmative Action is about. Beside that, AA is about monitoring promotions, pay, firing practices, and even the ways in which the company advertises its open positions. There are just so many misconceptions about AA out there thanks to the media's sensationalism about it (making it into a black/white issue, for starters).
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -Thomas Sowell
The most controversial thing I've ever done was to decide to think with my brain instead of my skin color. - Candace Owens
I don't know how familiar you are with the workings of Affirmative Action, but based upon your above assertions, I can only assume not at all. Race is NEVER the primary characteristic used to determine one's qualification. The ONLY time that a person's 'protected class' status might override other qualifications is in the construction field as a result of actual quotas (not perceived quotas) for WOMEN.
Affirmative Action is not just about race. I honestly don't understand why we're still of the mindset that it's a black/white issue when that's just not the case. I'd urge everyone to read the following AA fact sheets/informational links:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/statutes/ofccp/eo11246.htm
http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/re...cp/fs11246.htm
http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/re...2000028693.pdf
http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/re...e/ofccp/aa.htm
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -Thomas Sowell
The most controversial thing I've ever done was to decide to think with my brain instead of my skin color. - Candace Owens
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -Thomas Sowell
The most controversial thing I've ever done was to decide to think with my brain instead of my skin color. - Candace Owens
Last edited by Southern Chicken; 07-13-2010 at 01:43 PM.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -Thomas Sowell
The most controversial thing I've ever done was to decide to think with my brain instead of my skin color. - Candace Owens
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
That Mary Frances Berry person was an unconstitutional racist bitch.
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