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. 

>>47
"The Japanese and Vietnamese were given advantages in the form of grants. No one said anything then because we bombed the shit out of their countries. Why all the fuss now? You would think 400 years of intense enslavement would be worse...but whatever you guys say..."

Giving reparations and affirmative action to the ancestors of the slaves doesn't change what happened to their ancestors.  You can't change what has already happened and passed on into history.  Slavery was in the past.  Modern black people in the USA are not slaves anymore, and have been free for ages.

The case of the Japanese and Vietnamese was entirely different because it had happened to people who were still around.  There were people actually alive who had felt the injustices of what happened then, and an effort was made to compensate, as you suggest. 

Giving compensation to a 100 year old japanese person who had survived & lived through the WW2 concentration camp ordeal which happened -relatively- recently is completely different from giving preferential treatment to the descendents of black slaves from 200 years ago who have little if any connection to said events themselves, outside of the fact that they too just happen to be black.

Furthermore, it is not right to discriminate against white people for the crimes committed by their ancestors. 

Not to mention that not all white people in the USA are even descendents of slave owners, and not all black people in the USA are even descendents of slaves...