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January 17, 2005
Keeping the Dream Alive
By QBlog in
I wish there were more people in the world like MLK.
We Remember.
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Amen to that post, QBlog.
I agree. MLK jr was a visionary who knew that the wrongs happening in the world could only be corrected by doing right.... not more wrongs.
I remember when I was in the Corps (there was no black or white....Marines are all green... some are dark green, some are light green) and I read of a protest at a southern college (don't remember the name) where there was a caucus of black student groups fighting the college for the right to have a "blacks only" area of the cafeteria. WTF!
When racism was rampant, and ignorant bigoted white men "allowed" blacks into the schools with ridiculous "segregation rules" (they were seperate but rarely equal), great men like Martin Luther King Jr. made people understand that equality is not acheived through seperation! Thirty years later, you get kids following the likes of Al Sharpton, who only read the angry parts of Malcom X and decide that equality is achieved by creating a new "preferential" treatment. Correcting a wrong with a wrong is still wrong!
Affirmative action is saying you may not take the best person for the job...cause you may have to take the best "minority" classification for the job.... ot the best "woman" for the job and not best person. Don't get me wrong, the best person should get the job, applications should be colorless.. printed in black and white, not judged on black or white.
Recently, when applying for an apprenticeship, the form said there is 100 openings in the program. They will take the first 100 qualifying applicants received, and your application can not be postmarked before feb 14th at 12:01am. Of those applications 60 will be white, and 40 will be non-white.
So, if the first 76 applications received are for qualified white applicants, the last 16 will be returned denied! In fact, every qualified white applicant received after that will be denied until 40 qualified black applicants are received. Think that's bad, reverse it and it is even worse!!
If the first 76 qualified applications are "non-white" which is even worse cause it (according to the form includes blacks, hispanic, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, and "other") then eliminates 36 qualified applicants and all the rest "non-white" applicants until 60 "whites" are found.
Why not 50/50?? or 20 of each catagory except "other"? Or better yet, how about the first 100 qualified applicants regardless of color!
What's really bad about this particular situation, is it is not even based on any real testing, mainly the U.S. Mail and how long it takes to get your app in if you have 24 hour local post office where you can mail it at 1 minute after midnight or not.
I wish the people who succeeded MLK would really practice what he preached. He said he dreamed of a day when people were judged by the content of their character and NOT the color of their skin. Doesn't Affirmative Action go against that?
I feel it's wrong to ask people their race...why should that matter? Why should a person be favored or punished because of something they have no control over?
Posted by: Doug_G | January 18, 2005 2:52 PM