Affirmative action foe appointed to Civil Rights panel.
By on Jun 15th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Affirmative action foe appointed to Civil Rights panel.
Today, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights appointed Michigan state Rep. Leon Drolet (R), who successfully led efforts to ban affirmative action in the state, to head the state’s advisory committee on civil rights. In a statement, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights denounced the appointment:
“In a state with such a rich history of civil rights and union activism, it is most disappointing that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights chose a representative with such a shallow civil rights resume. By selecting a candidate with a one-issue civil rights platform at odds with every established civil rights organization, the U.S. Commission has all but erased its credibility as a proponent for civil rights.”
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Well the guy is a GOPer so bigotry comes natural to him.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:04 pmBusiness as usual.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:04 pmThey just can’t stop thumbing their noses in our face can they. Their audacity is simply breathtaking. They really do think that they are entitled and that they are untouchable.
Sorry Republics, your comeuppance is coming. The elections in 2008 are going to be a Republic blood bath.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:13 pm“the U.S. Commission has all but erased its credibility as a proponent for civil rights.â€
Like they care.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:14 pmWhat else is new? A fox for every henhouse is the GOP mantra. Kate Henry, I sincerely hope you are correct.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:16 pmBreak as many laws as you can before the 08 elections, it doesn’t matter, we will reverse all your crimes.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:16 pmBlatant, Fascist takeover by the thugs in the crime family. These sorry bastards are shooting the finger at the nation and pressing their fat asses against the window to show us they could give a f$ck what the law says…they are going for broke.
Now tell me that KKKarl Rove is not running the crime family.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:23 pmGood!
Preferential treatment based on sex and/or race, is sexism and/or racism!
June 15th, 2007 at 8:25 pmMore obstruction of justice from the Republican party.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:28 pmis mary francis berry still a member of the commission.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:28 pmGood!
Preferential treatment based on sex and/or race, is sexism and/or racism!
Comment by Mr. President — June 15, 2007 @ 8:25 pm
But preferential treatment based on pedigree is just fine, right, “Mr. President Bush”? How else did you get into Yale with crap H. S. grades?
June 15th, 2007 at 8:28 pmBut preferential treatment based on pedigree is just fine, right, “Mr. President Bush� How else did you get into Yale with crap H. S. grades?
Comment by colonyhead — June 15, 2007 @ 8:28 pm
Look… I’m not President Bush, I’m Mr. President.
I’ll let it slide this time because we don’t know each other, but watch what you insinuate, or I might have to call you a dirty-tampon-sucker.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:36 pm“Mr. President Bush”:
Oh, I see. You’re one of those “trolls” that they’ve been warning about.
It’s a good thing you guys are so easy to spot.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:42 pmAre these neocon hangers-on really so deluded?
June 15th, 2007 at 8:42 pmIt’s astonishing that they still believe the populace finds this kind of anti-American behavior to be acceptable. What drives the 29%-ers to so blithely throw away any sense of decency and relentlessly pursue “meanness” as a way of life? Petty fools.
Getting up every morning with the intention of being a miserable prick, and doing a lot of hating, just isn’t my idea of fun.
Speaking of Fred Thompson….
“Mr. President Bushâ€:
Oh, I see. You’re one of those “trolls†that they’ve been warning about.
It’s a good thing you guys are so easy to spot.
Comment by colonyhead — June 15, 2007 @ 8:42 pm
No, it’s just Mr. President.
But yes, I would imagine it would be quite easy for you to spot me… I’m the one making you look silly.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:44 pmWhy don’t we just pick a convicted criminal to run the Justice Deparment, a blatant homophobe to be Surgeon General, Dr. Strangelove for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a former CEO of Brown & Williamson for Health and Human Services, an Exxon exec to be head of the EPA, someone from Fox News to be head of the FCC, and just generally choose incompetent anti-human types everywhere else.
This is the kind of world I want to live in; live fast and die young, hate and fear, pave the planet – f*ck the goddamn environment, who gives two sh1ts about the northern spotted owl anyway? I want a government that knows everything, that way they can take that pervert next door to jail. Who cares about perverts anyway?
Yeah, that would be good.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:47 pmThe inmates are running the asylum.
SNAFU
June 15th, 2007 at 8:52 pmBut yes, I would imagine it would be quite easy for you to spot me… I’m the one making you look silly.
Comment by Mr. President — June 15, 2007 @ 8:44 pm
In your sick mind, ass wipe…you are the one who shows his dirty ass on this board everyday…too ignorant to know you are stupid. Go play with your pecker in the traffic and leave the mature people to their board. Remember that you are a bottom dwelling, cock sucking, knuckle dragging, troglodyte who helps keep Dubya up to 28%…the dumbest people in the USA.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:55 pmSorry Republics, your comeuppance is coming. The elections in 2008 are going to be a Republic blood bath.
Comment by Kate Henry
—–
Break as many laws as you can before the 08 elections, it doesn’t matter, we will reverse all your crimes.
Comment by SKdeA
Yeah, voting in the Democratic branch of the Neoconservative Party is gonna make a “real” difference…
Wake up folks. You’re being duped!
June 15th, 2007 at 8:59 pmWake up folks. You’re being duped!
Comment by JPV — June 15, 2007 @ 8:59 pm
Give ‘em the bird! Vote for a third!
June 15th, 2007 at 9:41 pmMr.P,
Yeah thats it, you’re making him look silly. What a putz.
June 15th, 2007 at 9:44 pmWow. It never occurred to me that a bigot could get appointed to the state’s civil rights commission.
June 15th, 2007 at 9:54 pmIs anyone surprised by this? After 6 years of mismanagement and malfesance can we expect anything less?
June 15th, 2007 at 9:59 pmIs anyone surprised by this? After 6 years of mismanagement and malfesance can we expect anything less?
Comment by Ben Dover — June 15, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
Absent a removal from office through impeachment, he still has about a year and a half to go, so I’d say, “Yes, we can.”
June 15th, 2007 at 10:01 pmLets end Affirmative action.Make people work for what they get instead of giving it to them.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:13 pmI’m going numb w/ the sheer… “sameness” of this routine. On second thought, perhaps that’s the GOP’s goal… hmmm…
June 15th, 2007 at 10:41 pmScrew you Chris. I am also against affirmative action but that is because I have a brain (unlike you). I think affirmative action is a cop-out so nobody actually has to address the ridiculous quality of education the inner-city actually gets.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pmAffirmative Action does not give anyone jobs for life. It gives some people an opportunity they wouldn’t otherwise have because of racist, bigoted, or prejudiced employers. And its purpose is to correct the wrongs committed by those kinds of employers.
READ A F*CKING BOOK!
June 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pmWhy don’t we just pick a convicted criminal to run the Justice Deparment, a blatant homophobe to be Surgeon General, Dr. Strangelove for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a former CEO of Brown & Williamson for Health and Human Services, an Exxon exec to be head of the EPA, someone from Fox News to be head of the FCC, and just generally choose incompetent anti-human types everywhere else.
I… I thought we already had.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pmThey are ensuring that every henhouse has at least one hungry fox assigned to it.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:46 pmAnd yes, Kate, we need to make absolutely sure that 08 is the year of the veto proof majority in congress, no matter who is elected president.
Now Wayne, that’s asking a lot.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:47 pmI thought we already had.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — June 15, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
No fair using the “royal ‘we’” here, it was the president who picked all those people and a Republican-controlled Senate who rubber-stamped them through.
But you make a good point. I say it’s time for a Constitutional Convention where we can once and for all amend the constitution to clarify all these controversial subjects like abortion (yes, safe, legal and rare always sounded good to me), signing statements (they carry no legal weight whatsoever and should never be used to say which parts of the law the president won’t follow because he is supposed to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”), and just how far the president’s authority as “Commander-in-Chief” goes (he is supposed to be commander of the military, not the civilians). Otherwise we are going to keep going through these same fights over and over and over…
And think of all the money we’d save not having to indirectly or directly pay for all this fighting.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:53 pmNow Wayne, that’s asking a lot.
Comment by RUCerious — June 15, 2007 @ 10:47 pm
Which one? Correcting the wrongs committed in the past, or reading a f*cking book?
June 15th, 2007 at 10:55 pmNo fair using the “royal ‘we’†here, it was the president who picked all those people and a Republican-controlled Senate who rubber-stamped them through.
But you make a good point.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider
(Geez, Wayne, I was being sarcastic… remember, this is the Republic of Stupdidityâ„¢ talking here…)
June 15th, 2007 at 11:13 pmActually, the reading a book part, but now that you mention it, looks like a pick em.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:14 pmRUCerious, Point taken. :-)
June 15th, 2007 at 11:21 pmHonestly, I read a good legal thriller to escape this crap.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:21 pmHonestly, I read a good legal thriller to escape this crap.
Comment by JPark
Hmmm… and I usually read good crap to escape this legal thriller.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:40 pmLOL, I love me some Lescroart or Martini. I can’t get away from the courtroom, it seems.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:44 pmComment by JPark — Do you work for the Court?
June 16th, 2007 at 12:15 amNo, JT, I am purely private sector.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:17 amComment by JPark — I can’t remember whats it’s like to work private sector.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:20 amJT, I have no idea what it is like to work in the public sector. I am lucky that my bosses are great (and green).
June 16th, 2007 at 12:23 amComment by JPark — Dude. It sucks. I have worked for the Courts for almost twenty years. I see far too much crap to not understand that life is pretty fu@king fragile.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:28 amJT, I know enough to know I NEVER want to be in the system.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:30 amComment by JPark — Best to stay out. I got into it because of the money. I was a political Atheist, and didn’t care about what went on around me. But I had kids and got a soul real quick. Now I see from a perspective that most don’t see, that our rights as Americans are being chiseled away. That law enforcement moved from serve and protect to serve your masters.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:37 amJT, in my last job I set up my boss for a canned hunt. I felt awful. I am so happy I work for libs now. I don’t have to chose between my livelihood and my conscience.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:41 amComment by JPark — Must be nice. I live and work in one of the most conservative counties in my state. The libertarian conservatives are usually good people. But half of the conservatives I know are cut from the same mold. The same person different body. They all have this phobia that they can’t trust people, or except people that think different then themselves. Cops have this same phobia. They only trust other law enforcement people. It’s so strange.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:54 amComing soon: The sociopath convicted last year for the rape and murder of that 14-year-old Iraqi girl is expected to receive a presidential pardon, which should clear the way for him to take over leadership of the Peace Corps.
June 16th, 2007 at 1:04 amI totally understand, JT. I am now working for big-time liberals. I am now beyond where I need to cut checks for the charities but if I had to cut the check I would be proud to do it for Planned Parenthood (my company’s biggest beneficiary).
June 16th, 2007 at 1:05 amI am now working for big-time liberals.
Comment by JPark — June 16, 2007 @ 1:05 am
Isn’t it great working for bosses who are liberal? You tell them you need time off to do something important, and they don’t give you that, “Well, it’s your job to lose if that’s what you want.”-attitude. My bosses are good that way. They understand that people have lives outside the office and that sometimes you just can’t get things done at night or on weekends.
June 16th, 2007 at 1:16 amIt is great, Wayne. They understand that if you child has an orchestra recital that you should probably be there. It is amazing how much better liberals are as bosses. Their company is far more stable as well. Not surprising.
June 16th, 2007 at 1:18 amToo bad affirmative action is just the opposite of what civil rights stood for.
June 16th, 2007 at 1:21 amm12, what would you do instead?
June 16th, 2007 at 1:22 amNothing, I would assume. I am guessing you would love some dark-skinned servants.
June 16th, 2007 at 1:22 amInstead of what?
June 16th, 2007 at 2:02 amInstead of white servants? I don’t know.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:18 amThe Republican party seem to have mastered affirmative action.
We look to hire the Christian Right which has been held down by the man in this country for years. It amazes me how we find the whitest black people to always promote.
We are so good at affirmative action all Black GOP supporters go straight to TV.
Lorita Doan. “Who knew she was black”
Armstong Williams. “Received checks to leave your children behind”
Condi “Bush’s House Ho” Rice
The crossed eye guy on MSNBC.
There are a few more. Just a few.
What more can twe Republicans do.
It’s hard to find the whitest black people in America.
Mike Crotch
Republican Bullshit Artist.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:20 amLorita Doan. “Who knew she was blackâ€
Comment by Mike Crotch
She’s black? You could blow me over with a feather.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:23 amMike Crotch, ain’t that the truth. Maybe libs should start paying them.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:24 amI had no clue either Shane. I just knew she was corrupt.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:24 am#57
I don’t have any servants. But I have no idea what that has to do with the far left affirmative action agenda that has been overwhelmingly rejected in many different blue states.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:28 am“The crossed eye guy on MSNBC.” Comment by Mike Crotch — June 16, 2007 @ 2:20 am
LOL, you mean that asswipe Ron Christie–did you see him the other day on Hardball going on about Libby? What a dickhead!
BTW, love your monicker – “has anyone seen” you? ;-)
June 16th, 2007 at 2:30 amm12, sorry, I am personally against affirmative action because it is a cop-out for politicians but “affirmative action agenda that has been overwhelmingly rejected in many different blue states”
Stop with the shrooms already.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:34 amRon Christie, isn’t that the guy who has a “vision” for America?
June 16th, 2007 at 2:35 amRon Christie, isn’t that the guy who has a “vision†for America?
Comment by JPark — June 16, 2007 @ 2:35 am
Yeah, but it’s hard to figure out which direction he sees it in.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:38 amm12, you lost, get over it.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:38 amWayne, sorry, it was cheap but the guy has crossed eyes. “Vision” for America is a joke. I, and my son have lazy eyes so I am guessing I can go with that.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:40 am#64
So, tell me: Why does one have to support discriminatory affirmative action policies to join a Civil Rights Panel?
June 16th, 2007 at 2:41 amm12, you retarded little girl. I am against AA. But I am against it for a good reason instead of just being a bigoted little bitch.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:46 amAnd Leon Drolet is also against AA for a good reason. What’s your point?
June 16th, 2007 at 2:53 amJPark, My apologies if I have offended you and your son.
But I do despise Ron Christie’s BS, and I get angry when any talk show host lets him lie without comment. And like that butthole Bob Kohn (sp?), when he starts losing an argument he constantly interupts the person tearing up what he said and trying to either insert strawman arguments or change the subject while pretending he isn’t. Plus I’m fairly certain he makes up most of his statistics.
I loved it when I saw someone once post: Little known fact – 85% of all statistics are made up.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:55 amNo, Wayne, I have not been offended at all. I am also not all that angry when m12 spouts his retarted BS. He knows nothing about the economy.
June 16th, 2007 at 3:00 amHe knows nothing about the economy.
Comment by JPark — June 16, 2007 @ 3:00 am
I wouldn’t draw the line there on what he knows and doesn’t know. He does seem to believe many of the GOP and right-wing radio talking points that the MSM has been so kind to help disseminate.
June 16th, 2007 at 3:03 amWayne, my expertise is the economy. I know about other things but the economy is my bailiwick. These morons know nothing.
June 16th, 2007 at 3:09 amJPark, About the only thing I know about economics is that it is a science that can explain the past, not predict the future. I have too often heard arguments made that if you change one thing, a certain result will occur. Never mind that you can’t just assume all other factors stay the same. And the pols in DC know that only a tiny percentage of Americans really understand economics, so they know that if they say something in a convincing enough voice, people will accept what they say as fact.
I will definitely defer to you on matters of economics. Sadly, any strengths that I might have are not very useful.
June 16th, 2007 at 3:24 amFox, meet chicken coop.
June 16th, 2007 at 3:50 amNo one is writing about it yet. No one is talking about it yet. Your civil rights are gone. I know because mine were removed in a court of law by a judge and it’s just ok. Nobody cares. Do you care? If it were your case would you? You would be the only one caring.
June 16th, 2007 at 5:19 amWe are in dangerous territory when you guys don’t care that I got discriminated against in a court of law. I am just like you and you will do no better when it comes your turn.
Judges have totally rewritten law and with Bush et al in charge, it’s OK>
I wonder how the Secretary of State feels about this Bush team output? Does it take total devotion to Mr. Bush if one wants to keep his/her job?
The Bush team has proved, many times over, that it is ill equiped to properly run the affairs of America.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:05 amSome Americans were never held back by this American goverment. And some were.
Those who were held back were deprived of schooling, freedom, their labor, their pride and their initiative. And unless one has the power to roll back history, that cannot be undone.
Many years after the government deprived and held back a segment of its population, some freedoms were allowed that segment – enter the Jim Crow era.
The laws were separate (but equal), the schools were separate (but equal), the toilets were separate (but equal) and race-mixing was reserved for the elite or the rulers.
Every thing was “separate but equal”. Of course, that makes no sense but it was a government espousing this non-sense so the press printed it.
There were three British siblings of note: America, South Africa and Australia.
At least the U.S. Sibling performed better than that Australian Sibling. Nobody “got extinct” here -just held back.
After years of helping the ruling class, the United States government finally said, “we’ll remove the shackles from those shackled and we’ll promote them from 4/5ths of a person to a whole person and bid them “let life’s competition begin”.
While that is definitely unfair, it is better than total removal like the Australian sibling did.
June 16th, 2007 at 7:01 amFYI, Drolet is a former state representative, not a current one.
June 16th, 2007 at 7:06 amWhy do we have to lower standards for blacks and hispanices?
June 16th, 2007 at 8:12 amWhy do we have to keep the standards for whites the same or higher.
Sounds racist don’t it?
82,
Nobody is asking for standards to be lowered. But as it now stands, the current administration is having a lot of trouble with standards, especially for wars.
The Iraqi war is, without doubt, the DUMBEST war ever attributed to the United States of America (The Bush team). Nobody tried to lower the standards of war for the Bush team. They did it themselves.
No one in America would think of lowering the standards of MIT graduates. Keep those smart people coming. MIT wins! America wins!
But when it comes to the Bush team and some bloggers, standards already seem to be lowered. In spite of all shackles removed, folks still seem to sink to their lowest “stable” level. And they talk from there.
June 16th, 2007 at 8:40 amits simple, are you qualified to do a job? good you’re hired, if you are not qualified, you’re passed….
June 16th, 2007 at 9:09 am# 84,
Of course thats true. To do otherwise could put the hiring company at a disadvantage in a competitive environment.
But a government that deprived its citizens of a fair chance at a job should be held accountable if it is a fair government. Not all governments claim to be fair and America is well on its way, via the Bush team, to being seen as other than fair.
June 16th, 2007 at 9:41 am“Preferential treatment based on sex and/or race, is sexism and/or racism! Comment by Mr. President”
Civil rights isn’t about preferential treatment, it is about equal treatment. Let’s say that a man and a woman are doing exactly the same job, but the women only makes 1/2 the salary of the man. Is that OK with you? Would it be preferential treatment to require the company to pay the same amount to the woman?
How about the preferential treatment this government gives to people due to their religion or their political party. That’s the Bush Crime family’s definition of civil rights.
Mr. President, I really do wish you would change your moniker to “Mr. Bush”, because you are a carbon copy of someone else with that name. You have the same level of intelligence and the same level of morality. In other words, you sir, are an idiot!
June 16th, 2007 at 10:06 am#86 Kate Henry
Of course it is OK, we all know that the NeoCons want to keep women in their place and they should also have no control over decisions on their own body.
What is double sad is how many minorities and women are still swallowing the BushCo NeoCon Kool-Aid.
June 16th, 2007 at 10:43 amComment by Kate Henry — June 16, 2007 @ 10:06 am
Their problem is that they don’t see anything wrong with discriminating against people over personal prejudices, however misguided or ignorant those prejudices are. The white bigots, especially, do not understand why they should sacrifice just to give (what they think of as) “preferential treatment” to other people whom they secretly view as “inferior”.
In short, they think they’re better than everyone else, and that they should get better treatment because of it. They actually believe that social status and birthrights should be rewarded. They do not believe that all human beings are born equal (in the sense that we were all “blank slates” at birth.) They think that some people are just naturally “better” than others. So when one of them loses a job opportunity to a woman or a minority, they think that they’ve been unfairly cheated. They do not care about “the greater good” of society, or the efforts to ensure that past wrongs don’t keep getting repeated. They care only about themselves.
June 16th, 2007 at 10:49 amAffirmative Action comes in many forms. Active recruitment I have no problem with, but preferential treatment based on race or sex and quotas are very wrong ways to go about promoting equality, in my opinion. And don’t quota systems and preferential treatment conflict with the Equal Opportunity Laws?
June 16th, 2007 at 11:33 amIt doesn’t always work that way in the real world. I applied for a position at a Christian university. On the preliminary application there was a space asking “Are you a christian?” I answered NO. “What denomination?” None. “Please give a brief testimony of your faith.” Blank.
I never even heard back from them, ever. I have tried to contact them and I get nothing through email and a promise to call back over the phone. Who knows, maybe I’m just not qualified, or maybe they don’t want me because I’m not Christian. I’ll never know.
But, I don’t expect some government agency to force them to hire me because I’m in a religious minority.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:38 amWait a minute,
From the linked to article:
A majority of voters ended it through democratic action. What’s the problem?
June 16th, 2007 at 11:46 amAffirmative Action is not something that was adopted as a payoff to political cronies. The idea comes from a WRONG that was done by the United States Government.
The WRONG was sponsored by the United States Government. It is terribly evil when the United States Government sponsors an EVIL policy. Some GOVERNMENTS are bathed in EVIL. But the United States of America claimed otherwise.
A lot of cotton was picked to enable those Southern mansions and make those Southern millionaires. The pay for that back breaking work was ungood for those who performed it. Get another job? Right!
So, now the U.S. Government has no obligation for its wrongs of the past. Lets just forget that and now we are all equal. Once again, lets compete!!
June 16th, 2007 at 11:59 am# 91,
It is my opinion, that Australia (A GOVERNMENT)might accept your democratically ended Affirmative Action and raise you the Extinction of A RACE OF PEOPLE who did not get a chance to ever get AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. And both of these SIBLINGS have the same MOTHERLAND.
Speaking of fair? Some countries are fairer than others.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:07 pmWe are in dangerous territory when you guys don’t care that I got discriminated against in a court of law. I am just like you and you will do no better when it comes your turn.
Judges have totally rewritten law and with Bush et al in charge, it’s OK>
Comment by liz —
We all care and knew it would happen. That’s why we’re such vocal opponents to the Bush Cabal. It could happen to each of us at any time, that’s what’s so scary.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:27 pmAffirmative Action is a statement by this country that it is trying to make amends for a terribly wrong thing that it did in its past.
And make not mistake about it; some Americans could care less about that period of America’s history. But it has never ever been addressed. Now we read of Governor’s of that day, perhaps aiding and abetting murder.
The one thing the MOTHERLAND did, way back then, was the same thing that Fidel Castro was accused of doing – dumping its prisoners and undesirables into the land of the indigenous. So, not only does America have decendents of Pilgrims, it also has decendents of “crooks”. And was the State of that Governor who may have condoned murder once a penal colony?
Not everybody in America is attuned to doing the right thing.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:38 pmAffirmative action has alway’s been the rallying cry for those who hate the fact that a minority will do better, it has nothing to do with being unqualified and if you dont believe that think about this.
AA in the Bush Administration has been abolished and replaced by: cronyism, favortism, nepotism, incompetence, and just plain stupidity.
So for all who said that the 400 year head start giving to some over some, and the way to correct those wrongs are unfair, this is what you asked for atotally useless government ran by the friends, and family network of dummies.
RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Or as the POTUS and his new AA buddies call him, comma #1462
June 16th, 2007 at 1:41 pmIsn’t it possible to disagree with affermative action but still support civil rights?
I think AA is fighting the effect rather than the cause, fights a nebulous problem with a too-specific solution, uses racial divisions when differences in opportunity are often not race-based, and inflames racial tension. That said, I absolutely support civil rights and equality for all. I just don’t think AA is the right way to go about it.
June 16th, 2007 at 1:50 pmDoes the minority deserve special treatment that whites don’t get?
June 16th, 2007 at 1:52 pm98,
Whites did not have to “sign up” for slavery. Whites were never denied the right to attend school… Are you from around here?
June 16th, 2007 at 2:45 pm#99
Blacks today were never held in slavery either.
It’s been 150 years. Get over it.
June 16th, 2007 at 4:25 pmNo, Wayne, I have not been offended at all. I am also not all that angry when m12 spouts his retarted BS. He knows nothing about the economy.
ROFL! This coming from one of the most economically ignorant liberals on this board.
June 16th, 2007 at 4:26 pm99,
Whites did not have to “sign up†for slavery. Whites were never denied the right to attend school… Are you from around here?
So that makes it ok to give blacks and hispanics special treatment ?
So if i give a white person special treatment thats racist, but if i give the same special treatment to blacks and hispanics thats not racist?
June 16th, 2007 at 4:36 pm# 100,
And you inherited nothing from Americans of yester-year. It all started with you?
Did the Bush team find newly minted human beings in outer space? And brought them here.
June 16th, 2007 at 4:51 pm102,
Blacks, not Whites got the special racism treatment – years ago. Would you have wanted it?
And for the person who believes he received nothing from his forefathers – then something strange surely this way comes.
June 16th, 2007 at 4:57 pmROFL! This coming from one of the most economically ignorant liberals on this board. Comment by m12 — June 16, 2007 @ 4:26 pm
ROTF! This coming from one of the most economically ignorant wingnuts on this board! Tell me again why you believe that the cost of medical care for *healthy* americans is going to be the same as it is for *elderly* again? BAHAHA, what a f*cking st*Pid little c*nt you are!!!!!
June 16th, 2007 at 7:05 pmBlacks today were never held in slavery either.
It’s been 150 years. Get over it.
Comment by m12 — June 16, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
Yet most immigrants that arrived here didn’t have their culture, their language, their dignity, their social and family structure all stripped from them – then were simply unleashed without financial, education or other supports that a former *slave* would need to cope. Then as those released began to educate themselves, and find success, were continually beaten down, and back into a position of submission. Yeah, they should just *get-over* the fact that many of them grew up in a world where they couldn’t eat, drink or even sh*t in the presence of a white person! No big deal – equal but separate – right?
You’re a f*cking idiot – m12! Where are you from anyway? What part of this planet could produce someone as f*cking st*Pid as you are!
June 16th, 2007 at 7:08 pm