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. 

>>55

I'm alot of things, but I'm no tripcode faggot. And it's very telling that one would go so far as to imitate me; simply because they fail harder than a faggot's AIDS test at presenting a convincing counter argument.

The problem here is that you guys keep saying that things are equal and things should be equal and meritocratic in a country that currently is anything but.

Of course you think "race is over" or whatever dickcheese bumper-sticker statement you're re-vomiting ad nauseum.

And yet, the race disparities insist.

Why is this? And whenever the country was faced with these, did not the government step in and take care of things? No one has a right to job? I say no one has a right to discriminate on racial grounds when it comes to employment and other empowering opportunites.

Listen...in a perfect, meritocratic, non-discriminatory, non-racist world, I would skullfuck Affirmative Action into dust.

But, being that Jim Crow is barely 60 years behind us, being that I see negative cultural memes about blacks and other minorites persist constantly, I'm going to support AA and many other things that dismantle the reality of white-priveledge. Your "let the past be the past" argument doesn't work when a segment of the population is still OBVIOUSLY effected by that "past".

I mean, if you really didn't care about race you wouldn't even notice that a black person was getting hired over a white person for *whatever* reason. Either way "the job" (whatever that may be) gets done...in the end, what does it matter to you (a white person) if a white guy gets picked over a black person who's equally meritable? Especially when the black person is loaded with a history of discrimination, classism and racism that is persistant and according to recent studies...has shown no sign of slowing down?