Posted on 09/23/2005 6:48:52 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
Here is a link that will get you going. Alex had to pay $650,000.
http://www.tommcmahon.net/2004/02/sorry_kids_but_.html
It was well known among writers, but the public has overlooked this important fact.
That's the difference between people (black, white, or otherwise) that *want* to work......and people that *want* a handout.
It never ceases to amaze me that people aren't more offended by affirmative action. As in - "You poor oppressed minority. Normally I'd think that you weren't good enough to work here, but since the gov't says that I need to hire you, I'll *give* you a job. I expect complete loyalty as well as undying gratitude." If an employer pulled that crap with me, I'd tell them to get stuffed, thank you, I'll find another position.
I'm offended when anyone suggests that I achieved my (comfortably middle-class) success because I'm a straight, white, conservative male. I got to where I am today with 25% smarts and 75% hard work. I started out with two strikes against me by going to a HighSchool in the backwoods of Maine. Nearly failed out of college, because the first couple of years was just review for kids that had gone to better schools - it was all brand new to me.
Then I went into the business world and learned that no matter how tough profs were, they've got nothing on bosses, or customers.
Race, status, etc had nothing to do with where I am today, and neither did luck.....you make your own luck, as far as I can see. Your friend that said "I want to join the ruling class" has got it right. The way to get ahead is *surely* not to wait on a gov't handout. The fastest way to success is to do it yourself.
/rant off. And don't get me started on tenured professors in safe academic positions talking about the working world like they know anything about it. :-)
Tenured professors are the worst dregs of socialism. I would love to see the system ended. I teach but I do not have tenure and do not want it.
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