“You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.”
Why?
Because it is wrong. Poor grades and ignorance should put you at the back of the class. What happened to the greatest and brightest lead the way?
Now it’s the average and the also rans lead the masses.
Something wrong here.......
Surely if we all go the dark side, we can all be eligible to go to Princeton. Just do what Satan wants, bow down to the golden idol, and reap the benefits. Not.
Guess she didn’t mention that AA also got her appointed to the supreme court.
I know exactly how it feels to not be accepted to the college of my choice because of affirmative action. There was a student in my high school who was not white and ranked in the bottom 10% of the student body who got accepted into the prestigious college that I applied to. I was ranked in the top 20 students of my school. I did not get accepted.
I was very angry for years and will never accept affirmative action as benefitting anyone but those who suffer from liberal white guilt at the expense of people like me who worked hard.
Is there something wrong with some people’s brains that keeps them from understanding the idea of selecting applicants based on academic/job qualifications?
Or are they just sensitive about being given a position they don’t deserve?
Thing is, a qualified hispanic applicant doesn’t need favors, their qualifications are what opens the door, not their race.
This is such an easily-graspable, no-brainer concept for me, I am genuinely baffled by people who don’t seem to get it.
But at least I'm entirely responsible for whatever measure of success or failure I've managed in this life, and so I didn't turn into a liberal.
She and the First Lady at least have something to bond over.
Every person appointed by afirative action (the PC term for forced racis) to a finite size anything denies a more qualified candidate a chance.
Affirmative action has/is/will continue to destroy this country. Garbage, crap and trash floating to the top. 0scumbag & Her Lardass are just more proof of that.
If Sotomayor had any integrity at all she would not be proud that she rose on the strength of her skin color as opposed to her actual ability and skills.
Glad she’s not a doctor...I avoid AA doctors like the plague. Except for Asian ones....figure THEY really had to fight their way in.
I always pose this question to pro AA people and have never gotten an answer. So, here it goes....If, as a business owner, it is illegal for me NOT to hire you because go the color of your skin. Why then should you be promoted for that very same reason?
Try it......and watch the blank states.
Affirmative Action played a role in the lives of my family as well; my dad was NYPD and took the Sargent’s exam after 17 years...though qualified he lost out on the promotion to lesser qualified individuals who had half the job experience compared to my dada and received half the grade on the Sargent’s exam as my dad...the only reason my dad did not get the promotion and lost out to lesser qualified individuals was he was white and those he got the promotion were not....
sort of like the New Haven firefighters who racist Satomayor ruled against only to have it overturned by the Supreme Court she now sits on...wonder if they will bring that case up in the 60 Minutes piece...
“You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.”
Perfect! An affirmative action supreme court justice to go with our affirmative action president.
Not only are whites expected to step aside for minorities, but you’d better have a smile on your face when you do. Otherwise, you might be construed as expressing disapproval.
I’m no lawyer, but I saw that interview and it should be cause for her to recuse herself from the case. She alluded to it herself. But of course she won’t and no one will even bring it up.
In all the years since affirmative action policy was adopted, I have not observed or heard of any advocate voluntarily giving up their position in order to make way for someone who was discriminated against. The solution is always to deprive an individual who himself did not benefit from the discriminatory act and reward an individual who was not himself deprived. This seems to go against the belief that the son is not punished for the sins of the father.
I'm physically unable to comment further on this state of affairs.....
Leni
Yes even a hotel maid like unwise latina Sotomayor can be hustled onto the SCOTUS. What those cretins did to a very qualified candidate like the late Robert Bork was despicable.
Sotomayor is living proof that if you go to college not knowing anything, you’ll more than likely graduate still not knowing anything. At least that good old “affirmative action” got her a lifetime gig on the Supreme Court. She’s got it made in the land of free stuff.