Discussion of the Week: Affirmative Action

[taylovesthebeatles]

You guys know the drill by this point, just post your opinion and reply to those of others you feel the desire to! Hopefully this will be an interesting topic for everyone. I'll post my thoughts in a later post/as responses to yours as I see fit. Again, anyone who has suggestions for a future discussion (even if it's not related to these larger issues) make a post or send me a PM and let me know, we can discuss it!

[GloBug]

lol ask the harvard professor gates on what he thinks of affirmative action. sorry but i wont get involved in this one. well maybe i would like to see others post b4 i do. so for now i plead the 5th.

[navuta]

lol ask the harvard professor gates on what he thinks of affirmative action. sorry but i wont get involved in this one. well maybe i would like to see others post b4 i do. so for now i plead the 5th.

I think the world should have no borders..
No countrys..
No proudness of being from any nation....

Free to be a citizen of the world.
Welcome to the new world order...the salvation...

[taylovesthebeatles]

I think the world should have no borders..
No countrys..
No proudness of being from any nation....

Free to be a citizen of the world.
Welcome to the new world order...the salvation...

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
-John Lennon

[freeringo]

Affirmative action means that I should win the next NDN drawing or 2 without trying.

[navuta]

Affirmative action means that I should win the next NDN drawing or 2 without trying.

yes.. sure... How many tickets have u brought???

This drawing is going to be mine... I want a PSP 3000 so bady u cant imagine...

U will help me win this one again ringo..
U are so nice...

[kingsnthahole]

i would love to have something given to me for free because of the color of my skin....CHYAH! that'll happen soon...gimme a break

[navuta]

i would love to have something given to me for free because of the color of my skin....CHYAH! that'll happen soon...gimme a break

oohhh...
Ok... we have these things here in brasil..
Im im totaly against it because anybody (any kind of color skin people here can say they are black) iven white people, and if u mad your secondary school on public school, both have advantages on the tests to enter the university. So someone who made a better test (exam) will loose their place for someone who made a worst exam, just because the state sucks on giving everybody the same good education, to someone who declared himself black or studied on a public school..
On this case Afirmation action sucks bad...
The state has the obligation to give same good education with equal rights.. not doing this shame modification...

[Lilred36]

Look I'm all for working for what ya get.Rich or poor black or white,Indian, asian no matter,everyone should have the same start.If your parents were rich then congrats to ya,just cause your poor doesn't mean you should get a handout,so neither should the color of your skin.look we"me and my grandmother and two cousins" had squat when I was a kid,no one gave us crap nor did we ask for it.All of us worked hard just to get by.Now I am all in favor of kids getting scholarships if they bang the books and get good grades they earned it.However giving someone a job because of there race is crap.THATS just my opion,and I am entitled to it!!!!

[kingsnthahole]

i agree lilred, and liberal democrats who side with minorities try to make us feel bad because were "the majority and have everything given to us like good schooling, and scholarships" we dont have them just handfed to us, we work for them, just as hard as a minority would...

another issue i want to bring up, is living in the NYC metro area right now, i read alot of news on the commute to work on the train. And every week, the NAACP is bringing up some whiney protest about how black men are targets for police activity and how there are more black men in prison than any other race. And how the statistics are skewed and erroneous, and black men are set up. STATISTICS are STATISTICS! they are in prison for a reason, they did something wrong! Not to mention almost ALL of the cops in nyc i see walking to work ARE black/hispanic!!!(and i'm very grateful to see a man in blue at every corner as i walk) I have a legitimate theory about all of this as well and hear me out...

I have listened to hip hop/rap music, as well as seen alot of the hip hop culture in the press as well as movies and what images they project. I've seen this since the time i was 8, living in an urban area 45 mins outside of philly, pa...and i can say one thing about all of that...
YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES.
if you see violence and drugs growing up and you have NWA(btw love their stuff) blasting in your ear, some people take it to heart and believe in this stuff. So they grow up to be gangbangers or drug dealers...well NO SH!T

anyways im gonna stop without sounding like a racist bc that not at all my intentions...i love people of all colors, im a lover not a fighter, i just hate people who are overzelous about their ethnic pride, and this particular article on by the NAACP really set me off. JUST SHUT UP AND WORK FOR A LIVING AND PAY TAXES LIKE THE REST OF US!!!

[badaace1973]

Im for it cause there's still so many racists out there its the only way to be fair

[freeringo]

yes.. sure... How many tickets have u brought???

This drawing is going to be mine... I want a PSP 3000 so bady u cant imagine...

U will help me win this one again ringo..
U are so nice...

I have not purchased any tickets.
I am not interested in our 6th gaming device in our house, not counting our 2 computers.

To get back to subject, I should win just buying 1 ticket because I have never won any drawing at NDN.

[navuta]

Im for it cause there's still so many racists out there its the only way to be fair

It is like doing something **** now to correct it lates...
The equal rights should not be compensate with this. The equal rights should be equal on the base... got it?

Here we have a saying thats says...
" YOU CANT BLOCK THE SUN LIGHT WITH A SEIVE"...

is the same thing... it is a problem that should have other means to get fixed....