Affirmative Action for WHITES!!@!!@!?

[Guest John Kerry]

Give money to poor smart people regardless of skin color. Giving money only to poor smart people who are not white is racist. Sorry, but by trying to stop racism with affirmative action it only strengthens it.

agreed

[Fletch]

There's a flaw in that logic. The town Mike and I come from is fairly affluent, and we have a high quality high school. At the same time, there is an apartment complex across the street from that high school that has some extremely poor people living there. Now those students are poor, but because they live in an affluent whiet community, they had access to a better standard of education and better teachers.

Now go to a town like East St Louis, Ill. 95% black, with over half the town living below the poverty line. Those kids are never going to be given access to as high a quality education as my hometown. So now you've got two poor kids, the white one from my town, and the black one from East St Louis. The white one had the access and the black one didn't. The white one is in all likelyhood going to have higher test scores, even if the black one did eveything in their power to overcome their obstacles. This is the disparity that affirmative action tries to help alleviate.

Secondly, invoking racism is to assume affirmative action shows malice towards whites. Showing compassion to minorities is not the same as showing malice towards whites. Burning crosses on black peoples' front yards is racism. The holocaust was racism. Underfunding predominately minority publc schools is racism. Giving money to minorities that have overwhelmingly been (and still are, to a degree) the whipping boy of society over the last 300 years is not racism.

[DD]

You said extremely poor white people lived near you? Why can't extremely poor minorities live there? What about poor white people that lives in St. Louis?

I'm not saying giving money to minorities it racist, I said not giving money to poor people just because they're white is racist. Yeah white people have it easier, education, jobs, but that doesn't mean poor white people don't deserve the same benefits as someone who is equally poor or less poor just because there skin is a different color. I think a smarter solution to this problem would be localized scholarships, so certain cities, towns, areas have higher chances of receiving scholarships on top of the usually way of measurement like wealth and education level.

[RD]

DD , affirmitive action is to counter racism, not to counter poverty.

Whites dont discriminated, so they dont get affirmative action

[Duff-e]

black men recieve large genitals.....prosperity is merely the white mans revenge

[Guest The_Postman]

DD , affirmitive action is to counter racism, not to counter poverty.

Whites dont discriminated, so they dont get affirmative action

Whites aren't discriminated against, my ass.

[Duff-e]

i remember watching some show that said when the movie roots came out bunches of black kids would just randomly start beating up white kids because of what they did to them as slaves.

funniest segment. ever.