In this country, we are all supposed to be equal, hense all the laws against racism and discrimination. We have it written out in our constitution, there are numerous laws and presidential orders with wording in regards to the proper and ethical treatment of treatment of individuals of all races which all boils down to one thing. Basically, if you say yes to one person in need than you say yes t the other in the same exact situation. You don't chose one over the other because of race, color, age, sex, gender, religion, eye color, or the way they were their hair for that matter.
With that said, affirmative action was supposed set up to insure that minorities that were formerly being passed over for jobs due to their ethnicity were being given jobs after all. Well, It became mandatory that employers hired these minorities despite qualifications. It wasn't just a matter of giving preference to the minorities when there were multiple people with the same qualifications. So at what point did this go from trying to counteract racism to becoming racism?
It started being abused to the extreme that if a person of a minority group was hired and eventually up for termination, would claim that their race was the cause and threaten to sue... women, hispanics, african americans, asians, and others were getting preference until it got to the point where if you were a single white male you were kind of on the short end of the stick.
Is it really still an effective sollution? Or is it time to take this archaic program and trash it? Its gone from an attempt at a sollution to being a bigger problem. America's sollution to racism and prejudice... become racist and prejudiced against a different group?
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"White Privilege," edited by Paula S. Rothenberg. It's a collection of essays that address some of the very issues you bring up here. It's very good.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
Thank you for that piece of information. I will most deffinitely look that one up. I'm finding out more and more on this topic than I even dreamed existed and its amazing what you take for granted when you allow yourself to just become a pawn in everyday life. Thank you again!