Name: Anonymous 2007-04-11 1:22 ID:ZzEqc/Mw
minorities are under-represented in the workforce and collegiate institutions but over-represented in prisons and inner cities.
This is for one of two reasons.
Either (a), minorities are inherently dumber and more criminal.
Or (b), institutional biases are set against minorities.
Affirmative Action is supposed to be a temporary fix for instiutional biases. For an institution to use an affirmative action policy, they have to set a time limit (under the Clinton administration, I believe the limit was 4 years).
Not to mention as part of the collegiate entry process, qualitative evaluation is acceptable. Colleges don't just look at statistics. For most colleges, it doesn't matter if you're black or white. What matters is your experience with racial diversity. For instance, if you're a black student in an inner-city school who received relatively poor education, had no access to expensive SAT classes, and received a 1050, surely that means more than an elite-class student with access to everything who makes a 1050 after taking lots of classes from mommy and daddy at his top-100-highschool? Affirmative Action is just a way of recognizing the adversity someone faced because they were black, Hispanic, or Asian.
This is like giving entry to the best oboe player in the state even if he made poor grades just because he'll be a good addition to the marching band. It's just a way for schools to justify bringing in people with something new to add to the table.
And the only reason affirmative action is based on race is because if the Democrats based it on class and included you poor sniveling white bastards, they'd be labeled "socialists".
I'm Vietnamese, one-out-of-six children, and my parents could not afford to put me through to college. Fortunately for me, I understood this early into high school, got some good grades, and was able to hustle a grant from the government to go to Virginia Tech. Was I poor? Not in the worst sense, no. I had food on the table every night and about a 1000 turtlenecks, so there was no reason for me to complain as my father made damn sure that it could always be worse.
At school, I saw plenty of white, useless kids who took their good fortune for granted, and day-by-day they pissed their parents money away only to graduate college and go to work at daddy's company. Is there anything wrong with that? Not really, but what about the minorities out there who get denied because of financial reasons, and have bigger and more ambitious dreams to make a dent in the world? Should they get screwed? There are FAR MORE dumber, more underserving kids who go to college than you think, but that's life.
In other words, there's a flipside to everything. Know what you are talking about before you berate Affirmative Action; its helped many minorites I know.....many of which who have decided to dedicate their own professional lives in areas of civic and sociological/humanitarian professions.
This is for one of two reasons.
Either (a), minorities are inherently dumber and more criminal.
Or (b), institutional biases are set against minorities.
Affirmative Action is supposed to be a temporary fix for instiutional biases. For an institution to use an affirmative action policy, they have to set a time limit (under the Clinton administration, I believe the limit was 4 years).
Not to mention as part of the collegiate entry process, qualitative evaluation is acceptable. Colleges don't just look at statistics. For most colleges, it doesn't matter if you're black or white. What matters is your experience with racial diversity. For instance, if you're a black student in an inner-city school who received relatively poor education, had no access to expensive SAT classes, and received a 1050, surely that means more than an elite-class student with access to everything who makes a 1050 after taking lots of classes from mommy and daddy at his top-100-highschool? Affirmative Action is just a way of recognizing the adversity someone faced because they were black, Hispanic, or Asian.
This is like giving entry to the best oboe player in the state even if he made poor grades just because he'll be a good addition to the marching band. It's just a way for schools to justify bringing in people with something new to add to the table.
And the only reason affirmative action is based on race is because if the Democrats based it on class and included you poor sniveling white bastards, they'd be labeled "socialists".
I'm Vietnamese, one-out-of-six children, and my parents could not afford to put me through to college. Fortunately for me, I understood this early into high school, got some good grades, and was able to hustle a grant from the government to go to Virginia Tech. Was I poor? Not in the worst sense, no. I had food on the table every night and about a 1000 turtlenecks, so there was no reason for me to complain as my father made damn sure that it could always be worse.
At school, I saw plenty of white, useless kids who took their good fortune for granted, and day-by-day they pissed their parents money away only to graduate college and go to work at daddy's company. Is there anything wrong with that? Not really, but what about the minorities out there who get denied because of financial reasons, and have bigger and more ambitious dreams to make a dent in the world? Should they get screwed? There are FAR MORE dumber, more underserving kids who go to college than you think, but that's life.
In other words, there's a flipside to everything. Know what you are talking about before you berate Affirmative Action; its helped many minorites I know.....many of which who have decided to dedicate their own professional lives in areas of civic and sociological/humanitarian professions.