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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Anyone that thinks the market is going to automatically address and rectify social, cultural and economic disparities when it comes to matters of race hasn't been paying attention to the last 50 years. (Do you even know what Jim Crow was?)

Trying to pass off AA as meritocratic is a fallacy; but sitting back and allowing people like >>3 to entreat certain citizens with "merit" because of their skin pigment is not meritocratic.

I support the limited use of AA because the otherside would rather that whites get hired over other races and I say this, because the otherside hasn't offered any concrete solution to race disparity problems such as these.

Furthermore, there's a really gutless and cowardly assumption that AA gives people jobs who don't deserve it. In the long run AA will help American society become more meritocratic. One day we definately won't need it. But according to recent studies that state that the race disparity has actually grown- now is not that time.