[PM_Mama00]

Tom, I think you missed the point. This thread is not about affirmative action, but rather should it be within a companies right to hire employees that fit a certain look rather than on ability?
If A & F is using hiring practices that revolve around a certain look (which appears not to include minorities) rather than ability, then I would say that they are discriminating, and that is illegal.

It kinda is like affirmative action. Who are these people to tell a company what kinda people they should hire? I don't agree with it but who am I to call them out on it? I could sue them and say "hey, you need to start making clothes for plus size people". If A&F wana operate this way, then that's their perrogative.

I'm of the mindset that very few people who claim they were "discriminated against for being Caucasian" were actually discriminated against -- they just had a priviledge that was taken away from them when they didn't necessarily deserve it in the first place.
In all honesty, I could probably claim that I have been "discriminated against for being Caucasian" too . . . but since the average white person probably faces said discrimination a handful of times in their lifetime and the average black person faces it constantly, I don't really feel like I have a right to b*tch.

So it's ok that my car was assaulted and I was called a white bitch and this girl attempted to attack me (thank god for counting money and power windows) even tho I did nothing wrong (cept accidentally cut someone off but I apologized)? It's ok that on my way back from up north Michigan at a rest area I saw "honkey" carved into the cement? It's ok that when I got lost in the ghetto of Detroit (Woodward near Cass if you know what I'm talkin bout) I saw a large wooden sign on the outside of a bar that said "No Honkies Allowed". So it's ok if I say the word HONKEY?

I knew that this topic would go off on the race card (insert the good reverend here...) because people can't just stop and see that EVERYONE can be discriminated against. Not just blacks, asains, latinos, etc... and that there is no priviledged white princess sitting here waving to my crowd outside. I am just ME and I am proud of who I am -- maybe others should have more pride in themselves and less need to look for the bad in others.

Exactly.

I went to a lovely "black" store because I KNEW I could buy any dress there and NO ONE in my circle would have seen it. It was not a store that targeted white females.

Lol I'm totally with ya on this one. I am not sure if Ashley Stewart is targetted more towards black women, but I shop there regularly. Lane Bryant is the only store around here that plus size women can get decent clothes that don't make them look like they're 80 years old (as opposed to Marshal Fields or JC Penney). I LOVE Ashley Stewart because they've got great fashions for larger women. Yes I do get looks when I go in there, but I don't care. BE HAPPY I"M SPENDING MY MONEY THERE! On another note... seriously, some black women have a wayyyyyy better and classier fashion style than white women.