Affirmative action in college admissions likely to be struck down by Supremes

[CountDeMoney]

At what point would we be able to objectively look and say "affirmative action has served it's purpose; it's time to phase it out?" 

When you can look in the mirror and say, you know, I really wish I was a Nigger/Spic/Miscellaneous.  They have it soooo made.

Until you can answer that honestly, it hasn't really served its purpose.

[Caliga]

I wish I was Hispanic.

[CountDeMoney]

I wish I was Hispanic.

Sure you do.

[11B4V]

At what point would we be able to objectively look and say "affirmative action has served it's purpose; it's time to phase it out?" 

When you can look in the mirror and say, you know, I really wish I was a Nigger/Spic/Miscellaneous.  They have it soooo made.

Until you can answer that honestly, it hasn't really served its purpose.

You had to bring race into it, didnt you?

[CountDeMoney]

You had to bring race into it, didnt you?

You know it, Shontae.

[grumbler]

You had to bring race into it, didnt you?

Seedy can't help it.  He's Irish, and therefor not white, but still not accepted by the blacks or Hispanics.  Only the Portuguese acknowledge kinship with the Irish.

[CountDeMoney]

You had to bring race into it, didnt you?

Seedy can't help it.  He's Irish, and therefor not white, but still not accepted by the blacks or Hispanics.  Only the Portuguese acknowledge kinship with the Irish.

I am the Great Incandescent Hope.

[Caliga]

Sure you do.

SRSLY.

1.  Latina chicks are hot.  Also wise.
2.  I like rice and beans.
3.  We'll eventually have a Latino majority anyway, so if you can't beat em, might as well join em.
4.  Affirmative action.

[Caliga]

Oh also, I'm drinking cafe cubano RIGHT NOW.

[CountDeMoney]

Well, aren't you diversified.

[11B4V]

Sure you do.

SRSLY.

1.  Latina chicks are hot.  Also wise.
2.  I like rice and beans.
3.  We'll eventually have a Latino majority anyway, so if you can't beat em, might as well join em.
4.  Affirmative action.

El Sharape and Taco Bell dont count.

[DontSayBanana]

When you can look in the mirror and say, you know, I really wish I was a Nigger/Spic/Miscellaneous.  They have it soooo made.

Until you can answer that honestly, it hasn't really served its purpose.

There we go, then.  I dunno about Baltimore, but I've done that exact thing before.  Not having to take accountability for anything (at least locally) could be worth its weight in gold.

[garbon]

There we go, then.  I dunno about Baltimore, but I've done that exact thing before.  Not having to take accountability for anything (at least locally) could be worth its weight in gold.

It doesn't really count when it is one of those white kids bemoaning a specific policy without thinking it all through.  What's next? Where's White Pride at y'all?

[Faeelin]

Note that I said "equalize the quality" that probably means spending far more money on the poorest school districts, not spending the same amount of money. That's part of the reason this approach isn't followed, but another part of the reason is you can't just throw money at it, you have to do more. What? I don't know. But I know shitty inner city schools already receive massive amounts of funding (I think D.C.s are usually near the top in ranks of highest spending per student) and are still god awful.

I agree with you, but what bothers me is that I don't think anyone believes that if we got rid of AA we'd see more of a push to help out minority students. It's either a crappy bandage or nothing.

I also find the histrionics over affirmative action by some white people to be a bit much. My Dad still rants that some black guy stole his spot in law school, because, you know, affirmative action exists. Yes, it's a misguided policy whose benefits are overrated. But it's not this huge injustice.

[CountDeMoney]

It doesn't really count when it is one of those white kids bemoaning a specific policy without thinking it all through.  What's next? Where's White Pride at y'all?

It's always the same with Whitey;  decades of drinking the GOP Kool-Aid, they're convinced that 89% of the federal budget goes to 12,000 single black women, Harvard is required to admit 350 black people for 412 freshman spots, and food stamps are delivered personally, all of them individually addressed, gilded and embossed, to Ms. Shanique Jones-Bey of Newark, NJ.