The idea that you can defeat discrimination with discrimination has got to be one of the stupidest ideas ever devised.
I think if they have to do this affirmative action thing, it should be based on economic conditions not on skin color.
Imagine if a rich black person that went to a private school and had private tutors gets into an academic program as a diversity candidate over someone who was white and grew up to a single mother in a trailer park but managed to get better grades. That wouldn't make any sense.
I'm not sure I would agree with them doing it off of economic conditions but at least it would make sense then. If you overcome poverty black or white, you achieved something even if you didn't get quite as good grades as someone from a better background. Whereas just being black or white shouldn't mean anything.
In short, affirmative action as it is currently practiced is a racist concept at its core. It assumes that every minority person needs the help just based off of the color of their skin and that no white person does.
The black gets the spot because he's rich,the white don't get the place 'cause he poor..God dang it! Money transcends race man...my homies at Yale told me that while we was bangin'.....innit..
IIN to think minorities get accepted over me
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The idea that you can defeat discrimination with discrimination has got to be one of the stupidest ideas ever devised.
I think if they have to do this affirmative action thing, it should be based on economic conditions not on skin color.
Imagine if a rich black person that went to a private school and had private tutors gets into an academic program as a diversity candidate over someone who was white and grew up to a single mother in a trailer park but managed to get better grades. That wouldn't make any sense.
I'm not sure I would agree with them doing it off of economic conditions but at least it would make sense then. If you overcome poverty black or white, you achieved something even if you didn't get quite as good grades as someone from a better background. Whereas just being black or white shouldn't mean anything.
In short, affirmative action as it is currently practiced is a racist concept at its core. It assumes that every minority person needs the help just based off of the color of their skin and that no white person does.
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The black gets the spot because he's rich,the white don't get the place 'cause he poor..God dang it! Money transcends race man...my homies at Yale told me that while we was bangin'.....innit..