When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Pres. Bush, in objecting to the University of Michigan's admission policies, puts himself squarely in line with his racist supporters in the old south. I get the feeling the press and Bush's people and nearly everyone else is trying to protect Bush from the label of racism. No more.
BUSH IS RACIST.
Let's be honest here: Opponents of affirmative actiion oppose it not because it is unfair, but because it is fair, and a reasonable way to deal with centuries of barring black people from educational and economic opportunities.. Opponents of affirmative action do not want black people to get a hand up. They rely on a system that gives an advantage to white people.
Looking back on four decades of affirmative action, the original idea was to step up recruitment efforts and produce some sort of "reasonable" result. In 1961, Pres. Kennedy created the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and mandated that projects financed with federal funds "take affirmative action" to ensure that hiring and employment practices are free of racial bias.
Under Pres. Johnson, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred (for the first time) race-based discrimination. Johnson defended affirmative action, saying "We seek not just freedom but opportunity—not just legal equity but human ability—not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result".
Various implementations of the laws resulted in something like quotas in some places.
For a good timeline with apt quotes, see the Timeline of Affirmative Action
The Times says today:
Both parts of this statement are false; the president does not support diversity and neither does the Republican Party; and the Michigan policy does not amount to a racial quota system.
Most universities and colleges look for more than grade average in their admissions program -- they also look for character, hard work, creativity and guts. In additiion, many give points for various underrepresented populations. Michigan, for example, gives points to those who come from a rural part of their state, and to male nursing students.
The three whiners who complained they were bumped for race cannot prove their case. Every basically qualified student who does not make the cut is replaced by one or more who on some level are 'more qualified.' But not on all levels.
Whatever the president may like to say he supports, his policies will lead directly back toward the white male supremacy of yore.
Bush is a racist and a master of pretend.
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
(except the specific sources credited in quotes)
Ohhhh racial quotas!
Pres. Bush, in objecting to the University of Michigan's admission policies, puts himself squarely in line with his racist supporters in the old south. I get the feeling the press and Bush's people and nearly everyone else is trying to protect Bush from the label of racism. No more.
BUSH IS RACIST.
Let's be honest here: Opponents of affirmative actiion oppose it not because it is unfair, but because it is fair, and a reasonable way to deal with centuries of barring black people from educational and economic opportunities.. Opponents of affirmative action do not want black people to get a hand up. They rely on a system that gives an advantage to white people.
Looking back on four decades of affirmative action, the original idea was to step up recruitment efforts and produce some sort of "reasonable" result. In 1961, Pres. Kennedy created the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and mandated that projects financed with federal funds "take affirmative action" to ensure that hiring and employment practices are free of racial bias.
Under Pres. Johnson, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred (for the first time) race-based discrimination. Johnson defended affirmative action, saying "We seek not just freedom but opportunity—not just legal equity but human ability—not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result".
Various implementations of the laws resulted in something like quotas in some places.
For a good timeline with apt quotes, see the Timeline of Affirmative Action
The Times says today:
"I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education," Mr. Bush said in a nationally televised address. "But the method used by the University of Michigan to achieve this important goal is fundamentally flawed. At their core, the Michigan policies amount to a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes prospective students based solely on their race."
Both parts of this statement are false; the president does not support diversity and neither does the Republican Party; and the Michigan policy does not amount to a racial quota system.
Most universities and colleges look for more than grade average in their admissions program -- they also look for character, hard work, creativity and guts. In additiion, many give points for various underrepresented populations. Michigan, for example, gives points to those who come from a rural part of their state, and to male nursing students.
The three whiners who complained they were bumped for race cannot prove their case. Every basically qualified student who does not make the cut is replaced by one or more who on some level are 'more qualified.' But not on all levels.
Whatever the president may like to say he supports, his policies will lead directly back toward the white male supremacy of yore.
Bush is a racist and a master of pretend.
Palema
7:42 AM
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