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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
Affirmative Action based solely on color is something I am against, especailly when it comes to educational benefits.
The financial background and potential for scholastic ability should be the qualifiers. BTW there is more than one way to measure scholatic ability than solely on a student's G.P.A.
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AA based on race is reverse racism, plain and simple. When the government or educational institutions require quotas or AA, in most cases they pass over the more qualified individual in favor of a person who's major qualification is dark skin. It's reverse racism and extremely unfair to those who work hard, study hard and are disqualified based on skin color.
I've heard people talk about paying african americans a settlement as reparations for the slave trade. While I believe racism and the slave trade to be abhorrent and sinful, I don't believe paying money to a race of people for something that happened hundreds of years ago is the answer. The biggest reason is there are likely millions in the US whose ancestors had nothing to do with the slave trade. My ancestors had nothing to do with the slave trade - so why should I have to pay for something we had no part in? Yes, it was terrible and I wish we could erase the sick stain from our history, but financial reparations are not the way to deal with it.
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