Tell me if I’m wrong. Was not Arizona the last state that voted to make MLK a national holiday? And they only did it because the feds said they would withhold fed money for highways?

Affirmative action should be banned nationwide. It’s state sponsored discrimination against whites and in particular white males.

“Arizonans will vote next year on a proposed state constitutional amendment to generally prohibit state and local governments from discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, ethnicity and sex.”

As a white male, I would LOVE to see an end to preferential treatment based on race, ethnicity, and sex. White, strait, Christian, males continue to get preferrential treatment in countless ways in our society. There are any number of very specific ways that I have received preference in my life based on my race, and assumptions I can make because of my race. We must work to remove the white privilege that is present in America. Then, and only then, would “affirmative action” not be necessary.

Let’s put in this way. You are in the ER and your doctor is a minority.
Do you wonder if they are a doctor because of affirmative action or because of the color of their skin? I don’t care what color their skin is, but I would like to feel assured that they are treating me because they were the best and the brightest. Affirmative action diminishes the hard work of those who earn it and deserve their status. Unfortunately, we never really know who gets there on their own merit or because of AA. Let’s put this to question to rest once and for all. For gosh sakes, it’s 2009. Let those who rightly achieve success, get the respect they deserve.

Okay, but do you look at a white doctor and wonder if they got into school because of a legacy admission?

I am 100% in favor of quotas. I think blacks should have 12% representation in every aspect, organization, business. 12% and NO MORE than 12%. 12% of our colleges ONLY, 12% of the pro sports teams ONLY, 12% of the entertainment industry, 12% of the commercials you see that seem to have a black token face in every commercial. 12% PERIOD! Once they have representation according to their race, we can dispense with all of the set-asides, preferential hiring, hiring for diversity goals, and the rst of the liberal agenda. I am anxious to see blacks represented fairly in this manner. 12%, PERIOD.

How very Progressive of Arizona. To enact a law that states that you CANNOT discriminate based on Race. Isn’t this what MLK wanted in the first place? Hooray equality.

Ten Myths About Affirmative Action
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/readroom/articles/affirm.htm

Affirmitive action is the most racist piece of legislation ever written. It essentially tells an entire group of people that they are too stupid to succeed without assistance from the government. It also degrades the achievements of all person in the group because they are assumed to have all recieved the assistance in achieving their goals. Hiring and admittance based solely upon objective criteria. Not upon skin tone.

We have had this discussion many times before, and yet too many of my fellow whites seem unwilling or unable to comprehend why programs like AA were needed in the first place. Maybe they don’t realize that the end of slavery after the Civil War wasn’t the end of racism. Maybe they are intellectually lazy. I don’t know.

All I do know is that whites as a group received distinct economic and social advantages by the enslavement and subsequent repression of blacks in this country. A repression, let’s remember, that lasted well into the 1960 and even beyond. There are people walking around us today, not even at retirement age, who weren’t allowed to apply for good jobs, weren’t allowed to have new textbooks or attend school in modern buildings. They rode in the back of buses, drank from colored-only fountains, and were told they were no good just because they wre black.

Paul and Bard, I can’t honestly remove myself from what happened so recently and pretend that simple hard work is the answer to all of the problems that were created. Blacks were purposefully given inferior jobs, education, medical care, and so on, for hundreds of years. Families ripped apart on purpose (which is still reflected by the lack of family and community values in black culture today).

Stop and think about it. That isn’t asking too much, is it? Stop and think about the mountain that blacks as a group have to overcome. Sure, some have, and more are doing it everyday. But that doesn’t mean we’ve gotten back to an even field. We honestly aren’t even close yet. These programs aren’t perfect, but something needs to be done to undo years of harm…