Posted on 05/01/2014 5:00:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sometimes doctrines just vanish, once they appear as naked as the proverbial emperor in his new clothes.
Something like that seems now to be happening with affirmative action. Despite all the justifications for its continuance, polling shows the public still strongly disagrees with the idea of using racial criteria for admissions and hiring.
Its dwindling supporters typically include those who directly benefit from it, or who are not adversely affected by it. Arguments for the continuance of affirmative action are half-hearted and may explain why some supporters descend into name-calling directed at those who dare question its premises.
The Supreme Court, by a 6-2 majority, recently upheld the decision by Michigan voters that their state would neither favor nor discriminate against applicants to the state's public universities on the basis of race.
Recently, a group of liberal Asian-American state lawmakers in California -- a state that is over 60 percent non-white -- successfully blocked a proposed return to racial considerations in college admissions.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Its a bit late in coming but needed to be done away with.
Try speaking with someone in various departments of the gubmint that actually know something and do what they can to assist you. Good luck!
Amen.
"The advice of Martin Luther King -- judge Americans only by the content of their characters -- is not only the simplest but in the end the only moral standard."
Take that Wide Latina ... and you too Eric 'the Coward' Holder
And just who are those very government agencies staffed with, again?
As long as the most powerful, most vocal and most easily and frequently offended minority group has their community organizers, agitators, their own congressical caucus and other sympathetic politicians, it ain't never ever gonna end.
Court rulings, even Supreme Court rulings can and will be nullified with laws and even Constitutional Amendments.
Naa, Affirmative Action is here to stay.
Name one.
they will not give up - many colleges teach that whites have unfair advantages - the next gen is getting brainwashed
“affirmative action” was a clever fraud. The name was chosen so as to fool the people into thinking that this was something really nice, good and fair.
It was illegal, wrong and unconstitutional from the start.
And no less then Hubert H. Humphrey AND Edward M. Kennedy promised all involved that the '64 Civil Rights Act would NOT result in quotas or preferences.
The EEOC operatives then went right ahead and did that after the Act was passed and damn near no one has been able to overturn it since then.
Remember, Oh, about 1974 when they said it was "temporary"?
Somehow 40 years doesn't seem so "temporary".
Good points.
It is a well-documented truth that there's always someone willing to say they're "for" their fellow-man, while conniving to make a buck on it.
We recently discoverd that dollar signs magically obliterate racism. Who knew?
Discredited billionaire Clippers owner, Donald Sterling---caught on tape as a KKK-type racist---apparently was known for his history of screwing Blacks both as their landlord, and as an employer.....areas rigidly controlled by Civil Rights laws.
So how is it that the NAACP---the most venerable organization in the black civil rights movement----has repeatedly honored Sterling?
<><> Sterling got this year’s NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award.
<><> He got an earlier NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award.
<><> Sterling got the 2008 NAACP Humanitarian Award.
<><> And the 2009 NAACP President’s Award.
Alas, it was all about the checks. Sterling got the most awards b/c: “He paid the most,” the leader of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP said at a recent press conference.
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