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Originally Posted by roachboy
this is obscene.
there's a level of ignorance that really is not acceptable--you've found it.
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He goes a bit far, but there is a shred of truth in what he says. Only a shred, mind you.
Affirmitive action is, in fact, a bad idea. Placing racial quotas on hiring managers is exactly what MLKJr. said his dream foresaw not happening anymore. If you have to hire a certain percentage of minority then you are required to take race into account when hiring people - and that flies in the face of what MLK wanted.
This has actually created problems for government contractors. 30-some years ago when Ben Rich's Skunk Works was building the F-117 stealth fighter, EEO laws required him to hire a certain percentage of his engineers from local ethnic minorities. When grilled as to why he had not complied, he said "None of them went to engineering school."
The consideration when hiring someone should be whether or not they are the most qualified of all the applicants for that job. Once you bring racial quotas into it, you can no longer make that your consideration, and several problems crop up:
What if only white males apply for the job?
What if the minority applicants are genuinely less qualified for the position than the non-minority?
Why the hell are we worrying about race in 2008?
Until we achieve a true colorblind society, which means not only that KKK-esque attitudes of blacks being inferior to whites no longer exist, but also that philosophies dictating that minorities should get points for being a minority no longer exist, we will continue to have a racial divide in this country, whether the "racists" or the "liberal apologists" like it or not.