affirmative action?

Question

in another question of mine, another person's answer made me think of this question:
If YOU believe in affirmative action, should the action stop when employee percentages equal societies percentages?
What about professional sports (it is a paying job too)?
Should blacks be limited to 14-18% of the participants?
and what about college scollarships? (Force academic schollarships to equal the general public, what about sports scollarships?)
ethnic groups are not regulated as to there size nor their location, so why try to FORCE every quantifiable segment of society to mirro the society as a whole?
for every EBONY and JET magazine, should we have IVORY, PEARL, LINNEN, SNOW, CLOUD and another 28 magazines dedicated to our 'racial' group? (thus equality is again balanced)

Answer 1

Here's the crux of it: Nobody wants equality. Everybody wants superiority.

Let's take for example... That's why men hate feminists. They say they feel threatened, because women want to be better than men, that is, to have more privileges than responsibilities. The truth is that men, likewise, want to be in higher standing than women, also. Nobody would mind having more privileges than responsibilities, or being in the dominant group. So it's always a battle for social standing. The ideal of equality is a balance between opposing forces, but it is highly unstable and not likely to ever exist.

I gave the example of men and women, because it is usually less offensive (relatively speaking) than race, but I believe the same battle goes for the races. Nobody really wants equality, and it is just a nice way of putting the following statement, "I want more than I have currently," and it is less offensive if you really do have less than someone else... but if you have more, you don't want to give it up, and so you may try to silently preserve your position.

I do not believe it is something unique to the race or the gender, though. If the positions were completely reversed, where the dominant became the subordinate, and the subordinate became the dominant, it would still run the same way. The subordinate would fight to become the dominant, and the dominant would attempt to preserve its position.

It may sound bad, but we have to strive to become more, or else there would be no progress. It just depends upon the way you act on it. I just feel like, if you want to have a superior position... Earn that position, and you will benefit others. Expecting to have it handed to you for doing nothing special means that you contribute nothing in return. So I would support affirmative action, only if the people benefitting from it actually worked for their position - such as going to college to earn a degree for the job that they are seeking, if other applicants have done the same.

Answer 2

That will not work. We tried it. Most blacks want to segregate. Most whites want to segregate. Its kind of ironic-a few years ago most everyone wanted to jump on the integration bandwagon. Now most everyone has jumped off, but the wagon is still rolling. Most blacks want to go to all black schools-its illegal-we have to make special arraignments to keep them funded because there are no whites there-its stupid. People are different-that's all it is to it. Every time we try to fix something we make a bigger mess. I dont know.

Answer 3

no you should always keep going no matter what happens