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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Anonymous2006-12-05 10:50
I'm SICK AND TIRED of having race shoved around like a club to beat around those that have had adult encouragement enough to get through college.
Kids need parents or other adults to care about and encourage them, I don't want my kids to be told "you have more melatonin so you're special and don't have to work as hard in school because we'll give you freebie points". What an insult. It’s like saying “we know you’re not as smart, so we’re helping you”. Makes me sick that the Dems do this to people.
What we need is to give people the chance to be equals and rise and fall on their own merits. We need to get through to kids and encourage education, and inform parents of the options. And for the parents that just don’t care, we need to loop back to getting through to the children in the classroom with effective teaching methods.
Take that money being used to pay the special committee and pay the teachers. Just do it-Talk is cheap.
Sure there are assholes who think kids should be taught only WASP history, but there are none of them in the government anymore. It's obvious who the remaining racists are. It's the populists who see RACE bullshit as a way to distract from the things that really matter. I don't need affirmative action to make a decent living. Fuck that! Kids don't need social engineering to learn how to be decent people they need stable families and good parents. That's why asians do so well in school, it's because their parents take the time to make sure their children care about their education, can constrcut a sentence, write legibly and do algebra.
I say we need to stop the Democrats from continuing this unfair social segregation!
American living for everyone!!!
Freedom!!!!