Affirmative Action is the practice of setting aside a certain number of position, either in jobs or classroom space, for minority based a percentage of the population at large. The premise is that minorities especially those of African decent have no other way to make it in our society unless these percentage quotas are set aside for them.There may have been a time when racial apartheid existed in our nation where there may have been some merit to this, but that time is long gone. Today affirmative action is used to promote a political agenda and it is inherently racist. Forty years ago racism was legally permit ed and indeed it was written into our laws. Today racism is not only illegal, if proven it can affect a companies reputation to the point where it affects them financially (this reality is exploited by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who use the threat of going public with a racist act, real or contrived to shake down major corporations) .
Today Minorities are represented in almost every industry, there is even a major political candidate who is Black, which is not possible without white vote.
To insist on Affirmative action is to tell minorities that they are incapable of succeeding without quota set asides. It also puts doubt in the success of those that do succeed on their own merit without affirmative action.
Tiger Woods is a perfect example. Had the PGA implemented an affirmative action program, Tigers success would be suspect on the premise that a potentially better white player was crowded out due to the set aside programs. Without this affirmative action program we know Tiger has achieved his success by defeating the best of the best in is sport. Even with a bad Knee. Golf Fans do not care what Color Tiger is, they tune in to watch a great golf game, to the point that the recent U.S. open was one of the most watched Golf games in history. People tuned in to watch Tiger play Golf, they did not tune out when they saw a black man winning. Tiger is proof that affirmative action an Idea whose time has come and Gone
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
There is hope for Charlie Crist After All.
Read Article.
Not Sure what it says about Crist. Either he is reading the tea leaves and acting accordingly or he is being a true politician and Doing what is politically expedient. Either way I hope he keeps going in that direction. We need the oil and we can get it in a way that does not automatically mean an ecological disaster. We need not be dependent for our oil to people that would rather we were dead.
Not Sure what it says about Crist. Either he is reading the tea leaves and acting accordingly or he is being a true politician and Doing what is politically expedient. Either way I hope he keeps going in that direction. We need the oil and we can get it in a way that does not automatically mean an ecological disaster. We need not be dependent for our oil to people that would rather we were dead.
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