[lovelyivy84]

People who think that me n' Honeykiss n' librasoul22 are some sort of pc gang really don't know anything about any of us! Our beliefs differ a great deal- but we really don't express them in front of you on racial topics on a regular basis. We discuss our opinions on the black community all the time, and believe me they are very very different for each of us. The effective segregation on GC btwn BGLO members/interests and other folks means that you just don't see us enough to know that.

I am much less liberal than both of them, lol.

And to clarify my issues with AA, let me state that I actually don't like it. I feel that AA is not a program that effectively reaches the people who need it's help the MOST- the kids in those broke ass public schools who have no prospects! Something like a third of the black community lives at or below the poverty line, but they are not the people who benefit from this policy! Upper middle class blacks with access to educational opportunities that approach parity with whites' benefit more than their poorer brethren.

I have a PROBLEM however with most AA detractors, because they don't have any ideas about how to CHANGE the policy. Get rid of it, and then what? The COMPLETE social stratification of our society along racial lines? IF you are going to propose getting rid of it, then tell me what we should put in its place. Until I see a better program developed, I will fight for this one, because as small of an opportunity it is, it's really the best one Black Americans have got.

I have a PROBLEM with white female detractors because they are the people who have benefited the MOST from this policy, not ethnic minorities. Yet I almost never hear anyone challenged on being hired for a position because they are female (unless they want to be a firefighter, which is actually a pretty valid worry)! It was a policy white women fought for until the moment they were perceived as approaching parity with men, and then it was ok to start bashing it. That's just wrong in MY opinion.

Folks, come with something better than "it's racist against white people" because quite frankly, I don't think it even BEGINS to redress the racial inequalities of our society! I was never one for the power definition of racism, but here I feel it is valid. How is it racist against whites when it ultimately does NOT A THING to change the status quo? The balance of power remains.