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Your argument to me still does not hold water. First of all despite the misconception MLK was for affirmative action and have you read his whole speech. I will put some other excerpts that express a different view----a message about what this country owes African-Americans.
And your scenario, if I was part of a privileged group of people, yes privileged and I knew there were certain programs that were targeted to those who don't get a fair shot in: education, opportunity and work force. Then I would like to think I would be big enough not to be bitter and since I know I am privileged and that my people run this country. I would not be too worried. I know there would be a 99.9% chance that I would behired. (But I understand it is hard to look from that perspective, when you haven't experienced the other side.)
We like to forget that companies have been forced to implement affirmative action programs because of the long history in this country of employers including government agencies of discriminating against people of color.
When discrimination is over then affirmative action programs should end.
I would also like to emphasize that I think there are other markers of success than numbers.
For instance event hough I graduated cum laude. I could have done much better in school but I had to work and raise a small child.
If I get an applicant who has high numbers but never had to work a day in his life, come from a privileged background, good family etc. and I have someone who was poor who had to work their way through school, who were already handicapped when they started school because the highschool they went to was underfunded and teachers were terrible, or were the first person in their family to graduate from college, or had children. Then I would think they were equal because though one shows intelligence in being able to pass a test, another shows determinaiton, perserverance, and confidence. All qualities I would want in an employee.
We really need to look on how we evaluate intelligence. Some people are just not good test takers and that comes from someone who is a good test taker.
Okay that is my $19.08.
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