Now That a Black Man Has Been Elected President...

[5stringJeff]

Can we please end affirmative action? There is no reason that a country that professes to believe in equal rights should have any race-based policies in the first place. But now that the US has elected a racial minority to the office of President, to serve as the Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the military, it's painfully obvious that there is no glass ceiling holding minorities down.

The US should repeal all laws and regulations that mandate any type of race-based reporting, hiring, money-funneling, etc.

[Binky]

Michigan, where I'm from, ended affirmation about three years ago. Now it's get the job on your own merit, which is what it should have been all along.

[Kathianne]

Can we please end affirmative action? There is no reason that a country that professes to believe in equal rights should have any race-based policies in the first place. But now that the US has elected a racial minority to the office of President, to serve as the Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the military, it's painfully obvious that there is no glass ceiling holding minorities down.

The US should repeal all laws and regulations that mandate any type of race-based reporting, hiring, money-funneling, etc.

Ah but Jeff, there has been an increase in the number of threats against PE Obama. Thus we truly are a racist country. There could be no other explanation, right?

[crin63]

Ah but Jeff, there has been an increase in the number of threats against PE Obama. Thus we truly are a racist country. There could be no other explanation, right?

You beat me to it.

Now they are going to make everything look racist and as a hate crime that they can. Be careful not to run over a black cat crossing the road if you're white, that will probably be spun as racism because you were taking out your racial frustrations on the animal. Theres to much money to be made off of pedaling racial tensions and selling affirmative action. They're not going to give that up.

See LN's thread.
http://debatepolicy.com/showpost.php...08&postcount=1

[krisy]

I will never understand why anyone ,especially blacks would want affirmative action. There's no self respect in it. No sense of working hard to achieve and getting that great feeling from it. Instead,here have a job because your too stupid to get in on your own but, your skin is the right color so take it.

Doesn't it take away from EVERYTHING blacks have wanted for years?! Some of the powers that be that supposedly represent the black race are so paranoid that there is racism around every corner that they must degrade the whole race with affirmative action.

[crin63]

I will never understand why anyone ,especially blacks would want affirmative action. There's no self respect in it. No sense of working hard to achieve and getting that great feeling from it. Instead,here have a job because your too stupid to get in on your own but, your skin is the right color so take it.

Doesn't it take away from EVERYTHING blacks have wanted for years?! Some of the powers that be that supposedly represent the black race are so paranoid that there is racism around every corner that they must degrade the whole race with affirmative action.

I think they view it as a kind of reparations and therefore they are entitled to it.

[krisy]

I think they view it as a kind of reparations and therefore they are entitled to it.

That attitude is why so many blacks and whites are welfare and not doing well. Too many people think they are owed something,and when it keeps getting handed to them,what reason is there to make it on your own?

[DragonStryk72]

Ah but Jeff, there has been an increase in the number of threats against PE Obama. Thus we truly are a racist country. There could be no other explanation, right?

lol, sarcasm aside, I think it's more just the natural reaction of his being a dem. Same would likely have happened to McCain if he'd pulled it out.

The thing I've noticed is that the vast majority of people who objected to him, did not at all object based on his race (other than to poke at the race card being in play, and yes, a few buttholes, but that's just gonna happen.), but mostly about being a liberal democrat, just as liberal dems objected to McCain for being a part of the whole Bush & Co. run.

[DragonStryk72]

The problem of affirmative action is that it looks only at numbers to determine whether a company is "racially unbiased", without looking to the individual employees, and their performance on the job. A guy who goes in to work and bitches every day about his job, or his "not getting a break" is simply not going to see promotion if that company has any care for how its facilities are run.

A lot of what halts the advancement of minorities is this odd prevelance of unprofessional habits and speech that simply get marked as a part of their "culture". Well, I'm Irish, so does that mean I get to drink and swear all day at work? No, of course not, that's stupid, and I would never expect that to happen.