Like I said, I have a problem if there is a quota system at the back end. And while it would be nice if job seekers went out to find jobs on their own, the reality is that some minorities, women, and people in poverty are self-defeating and if they understood how to succeed, they’d be succeeding. I don’t think giving them a nudge or even a hand is necessarily a bad thing so long as it results in hiring qualified people and not at the expense of other as or more qualified people simply on the basis of race or sex.
I don’t think giving disadvantaged people a ‘nudge’ or even a hand up is bad either. What is bad is the federal government dictating and mandating(especially in private industry) that it be done and that it be done for only one or two groups of people baised on the color of their skin or their gender.
In fact, it is the ultimate form of rascism and bigotry to assume that because you are black or female, that you are somehow disavantaged on that basis alone. Notice too, that this mandate is not protecting minorities in general or else it would have just said ‘minorities’. It didn’t. It said blacks. What about hispanics, asians, indians or all of the other racial minorities in this country?
Women are not disadvantaged in this country nor are they a minority(I don’t think)...so why are they included for this special treatment under the law?
Equal Opportunity Under The Law should mean just that...EQUAL OPPORTUNITY...not special treatment.