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This is bigotry that has become acceptable. It is politically correct to believe that blacks and Hispanics are inferior and need special preferences. To believe otherwise might even be considered racist.
That the DOJ can submit such an insulting and demeaning brief without a ferocious backlash from blacks and Hispanics is evidence that the cultural concrete is hardening around affirmative action preferences. A government enforced caste system is taking form in
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Tony, as usual you go straight to the point, ¿don't you? I never thought I was diferent than anybody else until I entered the military and started hearing things like "minority/female quotas." I was one of the lucky ones growing up completely oblivious to the complicated existence of minorities in the United States. Growing up in St. Thomas and Puerto Rico, where everybody is basically a minority, the bigotry is expressed by social class. In Puerto Rico, people are more interested in where you live and what your parents do. Then again, growing up in a society where education is a priority and so readilly available to everyone, it is dissapointing to witness so many unemployed college graduates because industry moves in to Puerto Rico with their own imported management. I don't know whether Affirmative Action has helped or hurt me, I have always found myself at the top of the class regardless of the ethnic mix. So it would be impossible for anyone to convince me that a Hispanic is somehow less apt than anyone else.
Bravo to you Tony for opening up the dialog that most are afraid to engage!
I don't agree. I'm a teacher in Oregon and if your saying that we should get rid of affirmative action just because they are calling minorities stupid, I think you misunderstanding why we have it in place anyway.
My friend is the illustrator of this book and he would say we need affirmative action. Great job bringing up the discussion but keep it and make it better.
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