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TruCoz : Your Platform for Political Sound-Off
- TruCoz
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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I am curious to know that other people think about this. I go back and forth because it does almost seem like (as some people call it) reverse racism. It would be pretty sad if someone worked very hard and struggled to become the best qualified person to get a specific position in a company only to be passed over because he was a white male and the company needed to fill their minority quota.
Because there has been so much racism in the past, I believe that affirmative action had its place and probably still does. Some stubborn, narrow-minded people needed a little push in order to bring diversity to their workplace and help open their eyes, but I think that eventually, we’ll need to do away with Affirmative Action. Racism is becoming less prevalent with each generation and while I think we will always have to deal with it (as well as sexism), in one way or another it will only get better.
Would we even know about racism if we weren’t taught it by our parents, grandparents and media? I don’t think we are born to judge or discriminate based on race, culture or sex although I do think we need to be aware of it because of the mistakes made in the past. However, the less we categorize or single people out (for whatever reason), the less we will think about the fact that we ever judged each other based on race or sex.
Hopefully in the future, the reason for being skipped over or denied will not be a question of race or gender, but simply of choosing the best man - or woman for the job.
I used to believe it's unfair, but that was until I found out that as a white woman, I am in the group who most often benefits from affirmative action without knowing it!
Source:
http://www.wpunj.edu/%5C%5C~newpol/issue41/Wilson41.htm
Specifically:
"Analyzing Katznelson's conclusion requires a return to my original ruminations. Affirmative action is a short hand response to the condition of blacks in American society. But the problem has gotten considerably more complicated since its original and official pronouncement in 1965. Hispanics are now the largest minority group and quite rightly clamor for rights and recognition. White women have been the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action, but they have attributed it simply to superior qualifications and by and large see no need to join with others in demanding rights."
I think it's unfortunate that we need a program like affirmative action to help balance the scales, but until we can be assured that every child is receiving the same quality of education, we can't really be assured that everyone is truly on equal footing when it comes to college education or jobs in the future. Why should a the parents of a child that comes from the inner city be expected to work twice as hard as my parents to make up for a deficit in schooling simply to get them to the place I'm at, when I just sat in class and hardly worked because I had a better school available?
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