tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064693649271811211.post6428953718216040777..comments2019-04-26T17:20:22.272-04:00Comments on The Black Thought Reformer: Is Affirmative Action on the way out?Black Thought Reformerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02502575415299942445noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064693649271811211.post-57899612850726621202008-03-13T08:29:00.000-04:002008-03-13T08:29:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Black Thought Reformerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05543970970860374469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064693649271811211.post-63958587264680385722008-03-12T09:28:00.000-04:002008-03-12T09:28:00.000-04:00Agree with you about not taking it out since it do...Agree with you about not taking it out since it does help a bit. I guess what I'm not in agreement with is the general assumption among both blacks and whites in the US that as a black person you can slack off a bit and ride the coattails of affirmative action into college or the workforce. This breeds resentment in whites and complacency in blacks and latinos. For AA to be successful, we must reach the point where it isn't needed anymore, and we are a long way from that. In the years since it was implemented, the number of blacks going into college hasn't risen a lot. What we are seeing is a higher number of blacks in the more respected institutions, etc. The bottom of the barrel has been unaffected, and that's where the work should be done. It's that group that's giving blacks a bad name and reinforcing old stereotypes among the white majority.Black Thought Reformerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05543970970860374469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064693649271811211.post-59274471537971752262008-03-10T13:39:00.000-04:002008-03-10T13:39:00.000-04:00Of course I will disagree with you on the affirmat...Of course I will disagree with you on the affirmative action though in agreement with something you said about public school funding and white women benefiting. I'm not sure how much I may or may not have benefited from affirmative action because as far as I am concerned I have been very qualified for the things that I have done. <BR/>To take out affirmative action would be as someone in the article said a step back. Otherwise something else would have to be done to account for the discrepancies. I do not agree with the thinking that affirmative action is just about getting underqualified minorities to take over where their white counterparts should be nor that only Blacks and Latinos benefit. It helps to get past some of the mental astigmatisms that many people in power in the U.S. still have. However as eluded to it still does not get to the root of the problem. The school systems are still very much biased and unequal. This is why so many Blacks with money pay top dollar to have their children go to school with White kids. If you are coming from a place where your kids are not getting what they need in school and parents never learned these things for various you reasons you have a lot of people merely treading water sometimes without realizing it. I know for my brother to get in school he ended up getting a lot of help from his then girlfriend's school counselor (she was at a predominantly white school). Their way of thinking and going about things and preparing their students for school was completely different.<BR/>Speaking of parents not knowing things I think as with so many other things the issues in family structure, etc. have some affects on this as well. But let me not begin blogging in your comments. :-)<BR/><BR/>I guess my point is basically don't take out something that at least helps a little replacing it with nothing while acting as though everything is peachy keen<BR/><BR/>Interesting several months indeed. Not fooled by the underhanded tactics and general griminess of the Clinton machine.Bosscy3https://www.blogger.com/profile/09702470204911140135noreply@blogger.com