The reason why your argument doesnt work is because of a documented history of oppression and racism that still goes on today.

Just to say 'let everything be based on income' ignores the fact that the majority of people in this country are white and tend to from what still goes on today and what has been documented throughout history can and will 'look out for their own' first and foremost, EEOC rules/laws be damned.

Thus having things 'set-aside' (which is what programs like this are) is a guarentee that at least a FEW minorities will be able to get through the door because without those set asides the vast majority of minorities simply have no means to fight against white power.

In your world we would simply do away with affirmative action and you could get a scholarship and in my world the very next day NO minorities would ever be able to get one again because 'money' for scholarships is a limited resource and due to the powers that be being mostly white people who are going to look out for their own first and no longer being bound by law to insure a piece of the pie goes outside their own community - they'd find reasons to make sure more pieces of that pie end up on their side of the table.

This is what has been and would be again for all minorities.

Affirmative Action as I mentioned earleir is a 'band-aid' on an open sore and its obviously not fair for some poor white people but most government programs fail at an individual basis. These prgrams aren't meant to factor in individual lives but attempt to address an overall condition. The condition we are dealing with here is how do you insure that the sheer number of and power of the majority doesn't simply snuff out any opportunity for the minority to stand on a somewhat equal footing competitevly.

Unless you actually have an answer to that then you aren't really saying anything other than you don't give a shit about minorities and their dilemnas and REALITY be damned, HISTORY be damned, whats fair is 'fair' ...even when its not.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2010 07:29AM by Moligant.