Affirmative Action Banned!

My state (Michigan) has wisely followed in the foosteps of California and banned racist/sexist affirmative action programs in Michigan, that would have discriminated against people based on nothing but their gender or the color of their skin, all in the name of promoting equality.  

It passed by a pretty wide margin 58% - 42% of the vote.. or, another way of looking at it: 

2,137,574  ---  YES on stopping AA
1,552,459  ---  NO on stopping AA

Hopefully this'll spread like wildfire throughout the rest of the states. 

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Again, you're not really getting it. Score and graphs simply don't apply here; the reason for the lack of ambition or irresponsibility doesn't come down solely to the individual in this case. There are reasons for the lack of effort. There's a history of subversive degradation and subjegation here that - for whatever reason - you're completely and utterly disregarding.

Throwing causality out of the window makes you guilty of perpetuating these cultural memes. These persistant cultural memes contribute to futher discrimination, self-degradation and lack of ambition and so on and so forth.

Meritocracy can easily become discrimination when, in light of these memes, lighter skin tone becomes something meritable.

And that's precisely what AA addresses. Pretending that it somehow persecutes those innocent of discrimination is severely illogical in that the policy only effects those who discriminate based on race. Those who are innocent simply aren't effected, unless you consider hiring a black person over a white person to be punishable.

"What about one instance? I am not denying that there is any discrimination occurring, but I AM saying by and large, it is not a problem.  The bigger problem, is laziness and irresponsibility, not racism."

But again, you're white. You don't live within the same cultural context as a black person and you should stop being so presumpious in assuming what goes on "by and large" unless you have something to back it up. If what we've seen statistically of the racial disparity is any indication...things have gotten worse.