Do you ever feel that protected classes have extra rights?

Question

For example, minority scholarships, African American sorieties,or when 2 people are up for the same job with the same qualifications, the person in the protected class gets the job to meet a quota?

You see it all the time with college scholarships. Most major universites have a soriety for African Americans.

Answer 1

Constitutional Amendment XIV says:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.'

Note the last phrase "nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

When a state or federal government discriminates based on any criteria other than measurable qualifications, they are violating the Constitution. When the force private companies to do the same they are violating the Constitution.

When will enough be enough?

Answer 2

how often have you personally seen that happen?

check it out... scholarships exclusively for white people!!
http://colorblind.typepad.com/the_colorblind_society/2004/02/exclusive_white.html

"Robert Hollander, a former Master of Butler College, said that during his tenure in the 1990s, administrators occasionally discussed how black fraternities' presence on campus in essence shielded traditional fraternities from some University crackdowns.

The reasoning: If the University were to abolish fraternities, the black fraternities would go down with the others, an undesirable situation for an institution trying to attract minority students.

Whether or not that's entirely true, Hollander said, many administrators admired what black Greeks were doing on campus, and were less than enthusiastic about the rowdiness of their white counterparts."
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/11/07/news/9034.shtml

Answer 3

Women and minorities, man, they get all kinds of special rights, then beotch even more.