Ontopic Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action is good?

  • NO!

    Votes: 11 68.8%

  • YES!

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • WHAT?

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • CHEEZE-WHIZ!

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • Total voters
    16
1. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area that I can afford and in which I would want to live.

3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.

4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.

5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.

6. When I am told about our national heritage or about civilization, I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.

7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.

8. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.

9. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can deal with my hair.

10. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.

11. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.

12. I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes or not answer letters without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.

13. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.

14. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.

15. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.

16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color, who constitute the worlds' majority, without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.

17. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.

18. I can be sure that if I ask to talk to "the person in charge" I will be facing a person of my race.

19. If a traffic cop pulls me over, or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race.

20. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children's magazines featuring people of my race.

21. I can go home from most meetings or organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in rather than isolated, out of place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared.

22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having coworkers on the job suspect that I got it because of race.

23. I can choose public accommodations without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.

24. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help my race will not work against me.

25. If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

26. I can chose blemish cover or bandages in flesh color that more or less matches my skin.
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God damn that's a bitchy whinefest if I ever read one.


I'm going to go back to this one.

18. I can be sure that if I ask to talk to "the person in charge" I will be facing a person of my race.

Translation: If I have an issue, I don't want to deal with whitey. Some good proof that the black community has it's own racism issues to work out.

You know, you really want to start solving the problem. Fix Black on Black crime first. The black community has some serious problems right now, but instead of looking inward, there is a lot of finger pointing outward.
 
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Duke said:
God damn that's a bitchy whinefest if I ever read one.


I'm going to go back to this one.

18. I can be sure that if I ask to talk to "the person in charge" I will be facing a person of my race.

Translation: If I have an issue, I don't want to deal with whitey. Some good proof that the black community has it's own racism issues to work out.

You know, you really want to start solving the problem. Fix Black on Black crime first. The black community has some serious problems right now, but instead of looking inward, there is a lot of finger pointing outward.
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and this
7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.

16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color, who constitute the worlds' majority, without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.

Everyone had better learn about black history, but black people are allowed to remain deliberately oblivious to other races history
 
Duke said:
God damn that's a bitchy whinefest if I ever read one.


I'm going to go back to this one.

18. I can be sure that if I ask to talk to "the person in charge" I will be facing a person of my race.

Translation: If I have an issue, I don't want to deal with whitey. Some good proof that the black community has it's own racism issues to work out.

You know, you really want to start solving the problem. Fix Black on Black crime first. The black community has some serious problems right now, but instead of looking inward, there is a lot of finger pointing outward.
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Actually, in my area a fair percentage of the time it's a Hispanic man in charge.
 
white privilege is a racist concept.



All the government jobs in my city seem to be held by black people because of affirmative action. It should be mixed but it's not.
 
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In my area of the country it is almost impossible for an qualified white male to get a government job. They interview and preference in this order black female, other race female, black male, other race male, white female, then white male. I haven't seen a white male ever in the dmv, court house, tag office, etc. I don't care if the service is good.


I don't think race should be a factor. Hell don't put that check box on the application.
 
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b_sinning said:
In my area of the country it is almost impossible for an qualified white male to get a government job. They interview and preference in this order black female, other race female, black male, white female, then white male. I haven't seen a white male ever in the dmv, court house, tag office, etc. I don't care if the service is good.
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Perhaps because those jobs are typically occupied by women, not men? :confused: It's like trying to find a male secretary.
 
Khareesi said:
I don't. You're just not clever enough to understand my superior logic.
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You fucking talked about modern slavery in countries other than the US in a thread specifically about the US and Affirmative Action within the US. You have no logic, you just flit from shiny stupid idea to shiny stupid idea
 
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