Originally posted by Incidents Happen
Yeah, Simon, they said it was for those who died. What a crock of ****. The guys who raised the Flag at Iwo Jima weren't changed, and they still represented America.

Why is it that a black/asian guy has to be in there in order for everybody to be happy? ****, I'm not happy; but I guess that's not what America is for, is it?

Everyone bitches about minorities needing more and more; let me tell you, that is a crock of ****. If you're a minority, and don't get hired for a job, you can sue and easily take them for $100,000 bucks or so for not hiring you. If you get fired from a job as a minority, you can sue and make a killing on a settlement. It's plain out stupid, reverse racism. The Detriot Lions (NFL Football Team) got fined $500,000 for hiring Steve Mariucci right away, without interviewing minority coaches. What a ****ing story, huh? Mooch had job offers from all around the league, and is known as one of the best coaches in the NFL (turned around a -$26 Million cap problem in San Fran, into a Division Title Winning/Playoff Team. Was fired for not having a flashy offense, after taking 9ers to Division Championship game); If Detroit spent time interviewing ****ty minority coaches, Mooch would have gone with another team, 'nuff said. He was the last coach available that was decent, and the Lions can't make a choice without getting a fine, because the minorities need a chance. What a ****ing crock.

If a minority gets hired, does the white man cry and cry, and the NFL fine the team for not allowing White people to interview for the job? **** no.

Which brings me to Affirmative Action; The Democracts love it, and the republicans hate it. Personally, I hate it myself, but I also hate Republicans. Democrats are more towards my taste, but i hate them too. I think that most politicians have their nose up someone's asshole the majority of the time, filling their own pockets for the next campaign, gotta find a way to cover up that scandal!

Affirmative Action, to me, violates the constitution. Each person is no longer equal; The blacks now get a boost when it comes to education. Notice how no other minority gets a boost; The Asians don't get a boost, The Mexicans don't get a boost, The Irish don't, oh no. Just the Blacks. I'd say "African American", except the fact that 95% of them haven't been to Africa in their entire lives.

Colleges should be racially blind; Race should not be an issue. Minorities always say that we are profiling, that we are doing this and that, when you are the one wanting race on college applications!. For christ's sake, your own Martin Luther King said that one day, he wishes for there to be a racially blind society, where his kids are judged by the content of their own character, not by the color of their own skin. I guess that doesn't apply when it comes to freebies, does it?

And the whole "Forty Acres and a Mule" thing is bull****! Who were you a slave to, exactly, again? Huh? Oh, you were born a free person? Well, thats good to hear, I wonder who saved your ass? Oh really, my great-great grandfather? Hm, and who should be thanking who? My god! As the Eagles' song goes "Get Over It!".

~Incidents

You're arguing against people who've seen more of this world first hand than you've even had a chance to. You might want to tone it down, listen and observe before you bring your opinion forth with such vigor.

I can drive about an hour north of here and arrive in a town that still has segregated schools and open Klan meetings. I can walk five minutes to a mostly black dorm on the ULL campus and find skinhead graffiti on a nearby transformer box. The city hasn't cleaned it up since I moved here over a year ago. Gilbert, a man in my department gets harassed by two police departments all the time, and he has no criminal record. In fact, one night while working his second job (a paper route), a man pulled a shotgun on him. When Gilbert called the police to report this, he was the one who given the riot act by the investigating officers. You guessed it, he's black.

I know a man who works in for a large defense firm who's openly racist and one of his primary duties is hiring people. Go to any magor US city and you will consistantly find the schools least able to produce successful adults (mostly due to underfunding) in minority districts.

If you think blacks have a better chance to succeed in this nation, you're NUTS.