It's unfortunate...

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Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Not as good as it could have been but at least they upheld it. And they should keep doing that until (unlikely as it is) there is no bias and inequality in our system. But currently there clearly is bias and inquality so affirmative action is required to try to even the scales. Its not racism when its evening the scales. Racism is when you make them farther apart... as opposed to this, which makes up for natural disadvantages people in the affected groups have. None of them are their faults, so its a badly needed program to make up for those things...

Saying that getting rid of affirmative action does anything other than increase bias and racism and dramatically lower the number of black (and other affected minority) students from going to college is delusional.

Predictable liberal babble. You claim it is intended to even the scales, but to do so you have to create a bias and a racism against the majority. White people are no more able to control being white than anyone else can change their color.

A better alternative would be to eliminate race altogether on applications for work and study, and hire/accept based solely on achievements and resumè. Of course, if blacks and minorities became successful, they wouldn't need liberals anymore, thus, liberals do their best to keep them down in many ways, affirmative action being one. Again, short-sightedness. It does give minorities a temporary advantage as far as getting into schools and jobs, it also broadens racial strife and exudes inequality.

There will always be bias, but broad racial biases are diminishing constantly. I know that this is important for some minorities who really wish to achieve, and it does help them. But what I am saying is that our society is moving away from the need for such programs, but from what you are saying, it should be a program that is continued forever without end. I personally think a lot of racial tensions that exist today are due to these reverse-racist policies, which feed off the racism they create to continue to exist, and therefore accomplish almost nothing in the long run.

For example, when Virginia Tech temporarily abolished all racial-preference standards for admission this year, there were no racial backlashes from minorities, however, the liberal professors and their ilk decried the move as racist and fascist and what have you, and Tech balked and cowardly reinstated racial quotas again. Being that Virginia has a rather large minority population, it figured that even without racial quotas, blacks would be pretty well equally represented in the school body, likely with better-qualified minorities, but it didn't matter to the liberals. They had a racial agenda to push and they pushed it. Thus, progress takes a backseat to political bullshit.