affirmative action

Scalia today in the affirmative action hearing: Mother Jones: Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at "Slower" Colleges LA Times op ed: No, Scalia's comment about 'less-advanced' schools wasn't racist Essentially Scalia put his foot in his mouth assuming affirmative action used to keep...

This sort of thing troubles me as it appears to have at least some backing in the British government. Apparently roughly half the employees of these banks are women, but at the senior echelons, the ratio falls to about a quarter. The assumption seems to be that sexism is to blame, but I...

Obama's Cabinet: A Lot of White Guys This Time Obama Criticized for Packing Cabinet With White Guys Obama’s Cabinet diversity in danger with new picks Obama’s failure to nominate women for two top Cabinet posts questioned A27NgEHC7TA Obama needs some binders of women dog2tdKqEGE Why all...

Southern Baptists promise "special attention" for minorities, not affirmative action Article: New York Times

So the British government is racist. There are jobs you can't apply for if you don't have the right skin colour. link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090629/pl_nm/us_usa_race_court I am all for ending the legacy of segregation and discrimination where it existed. But punishing American citizens just because of the color of their skin is not right. Civil service exams should be color-blind, and there is no...

Isnt that the typical line you get from Anti-affirmative action types like GW Bush? Looks like "best qualified to the Dept of Justice means you graduated from some crappy 4th tier law school that happens to have some good political connections. Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school...

The most amazing thing about affirmative action to me is it gets people to self-identify on college and other application forms against their self-interest. Of the tens of millions of people who fill them out, only a tiny percentage call themselves black/african american, even though there are...

Originally posted by Skeptic in the thread Why no debate on white guys qualifications?? How often does someone get hired by saying "I was admitted to such and such college or graduate school"? Isn't it important to actually pass some courses? If you're in a position to hire, then aren't you...

Former NMHU Professor Alleges Retaliation Associated Press SANTA FE — A former math and computer science professor at New Mexico Highlands University alleges he was fired in retaliation for speaking his mind. Gregg Turner alleges his civil rights were violated and his contract was...

Eliminating affirmative action would devastate most minority college enrollment Ignoring race in elite college admissions would result in dramatic declines in the numbers of African Americans and Hispanics accepted with little gain for white students, according to Princeton University...

Is that quote racist? Yes, no, or planet x.

Why do communists often like affirmative action? From what I know of communism, it is not a principal of communism to reduce poverty among an ethnic group or race by increasing employment among it and increasing unemployment among another ethnic group or race. I thought communists wanted...

This man is hardly qualified to be a lawyer, much less on the Supreme Court. A direct beneficiary of Affirmative Action he nonetheless knows where his bread is buttered. After disclaiming AA and that there was a "Black" spot on the Supreme Court, after the death of one of our greatest jurists...

This court really surprises me. Its breaking news so no link. Im sure its the whole "diversity in education" argument that lead the way.

What if a bunch of white high school kids started listing themselves as "African American" on college applications in order to take advantage of the unfair Affirmative Action system? If it came down to it, the white kids could cite recent mitochondrial DNA evidence that suggests all modern...

The very existence of Affirmative Action ideals in a society is an accusation that at least one group of people is racist. Affirmative Action is supposed to force racist white employers to hire black employees. Do we really want black employees to be working for people who want to kill or...

I don't know if this has been discussed in any depth yet. Are you for or against it? Personally I lean a little towards "against". It is a bit of a grey area for me though because I can understand arguments about the good of society in general being served by these sorts of practices, and...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,82753,00.html Affirmative action is the last bastion of institutionalized racism in america. It has to go.