[Restorer]

I think this is an excellent explanation of why some type of affirmative action, formal or not, is probably inevitable in America. I don't necessarily agree with the author's conclusions as to what we should do about it. But I think he makes some excellent points.

[martin_fierro]

Explaining that giant sucking sound

Res Ipsa Loquitor.

[garbanzo]

It was made inevitable intially because the former system was manifestly unfair. This is the difficulty of AA of course - even if you admit it was intially a reasonable policy, at what point does it have to end?

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

Items (6) & (7) are false.

[Leisler]

Ah, the whole article is about the failure of AA.

[El Gato]

The latest news in my own neighborhood is that an exceptionally vicious Central American gang named Mara Salvatrucha is now entrenched here on Long Island. ("Working as landscapers and busboys by day and criminals at night," says the New York Post. Which puts those cheery lawn-service workers in a new light.)

I doubt they are the same people. Most likely the gang bangers are the children of an earlier generation of illegals.

[gcruse]

America can never be Lake Woebegone.
America cannot accept that.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

That giant sucking sound is John's attempt to justify wide open borders and temporary passes. CITIZENS need the jobs, John. Get a clue.