Flu, all your points are valid. I love your passion and how you stick up for your mother. Good for you. Some of the public school morons need icons to assist them make change. I can call them that because I am a public school moron, but I went years ago, before the teachers’ unions completely dumbed down the classrooms. I do not think Affirmative Action helped women either. It just fomented gender warfare. Also, your point about who should be helped is 100% correct, it should not be racial, but for those in need regardless of race. Wake up America. Obama’s statistical sleight of hand regarding who would get a tax break is more of his obscene propaganda. Goebel’s would be proud of the lies he constantly spins fed by an unending stream of small untraceable donations. This is not really about politics for me, it is about which candidate will hurt my family more and it is clearly Obama. BTW, my husband is 50% Asian (Japanese mother, American father). Affirmative action never assisted him one iota.
“Again, why oh why, is mainstream America pinning things like affirmative action on us is beyond me? I would fully support a more fairer system that was more based on economic need,irrespective or race. My rationale is some Caucasian from rural south community that probably never sent folks to college would have the same consideration for an ‘affirmative action’ as some African American or Latino from the inner city. In my mind, if these social policies are really meant for giving ‘less fortunate people’ more opportunity, they need to be unilaterally applied irrespective of race.”
It should be to each according to their need (for monetary assistance, even with low interest grants) and not their race. And jobs should be according to their ability and based on merit not on some differential quota designed to assuage white (liberal) guilt over slavery. Spreading the wealth does not a healthy economy make. Smart businessmen and the rich will always find their way around the rules and will stay rich The middle class will suffer and may well decide it is not worth working to pay for those who do not wish to work. Remember the small farms in the old Soviet Union far outproduced the collective ones. It is the invisible hand at work. The invisible hand of self-interest.
