Why would any state want to keep affirmative action?
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Ugh.No I dont.Im a liberal, but on this thing I really really agree with you. \n Affirmative action only succeeds in further spreading the idea that racism is alive and well in this country by rewarding someone simply because of the color of their skin.
109582
No.  It is the fact that the laws that are intended to try to even the playing field like affirmative action are racist.  Racism works both ways.  To not be racist is to not care what ethnicity a person is.  Though I am white, I always fill out the forms saying that I am blasian.  What's worse is that laws like affirmative action don't attack racism, they just try to turn men of a different race white.  It is trying to force assimilation.
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Proposal 2 is a statewide ballot initiative that will prohibit the state from granting preferential treatment based on skin color or gender in 3 specific areas:  public contracting, public employment, and public education.\n\nProposal 2...\n\n• Reflects the colorblind language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- because equal treatment is the essence of civil rights.\n\n• Ends discrimination against groups and individuals based on race or sex for state employment, university admissions, and public contracting.\n\n• Bans quotas and set-aside programs giving every person a fair chance to compete for good paying jobs and college admissions.\n\nProposal 2 DOES NOT... \n\n• Affect public health facilities, including breast cancer screening centers, fair housing programs, or private scholarships.\n\n• Eliminate outreach or true equal opportunity programs.\n\n• Eliminate Title IX or girls' sports.
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Minorities and women in the workplace.\n\nAnyone that thinks Affirmative Action is not necessary and very much needed is living in a fantasy world.\n\nI have personally known over 20 women that have experienced hostility in the workplace in male dominated engineering fields. Some of them were eventually even fired after complaining.\n\nThis is an atrocity in the 21st century and it happens a lot more than anyone knows.\n\nI have an electrical engineering degree and my sister has a mechanical engineering degree. Both of us have experienced this. \n\nMy sister was a mechanical eng. for Nascar and was the only female in the research and development dept. I can not count how many times she called me while on her lunch hour upset and crying from being harassed. Btw, the only black person in that entire building was the receptionist.\n\nAffirmative Action is needed now more than ever because there are still a lot of white males that make it clear they do NOT want females or minorities to 'intrude' on what they call a 'white man's job'.\n\nPoint is that taking away Affirmative Action is saying that you believe ppl will on their own level the playing field... this is just not true as history has repeatedly shown us.
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Good question, I think the only reason is because overall most poeple in the nation (now I'm not saying all, and the numbers are dwinding) don't want a nation of gamblers.  Not to mention it would have a bad effect on the state lotteries already in place creating revinue for the states.
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California Proposition 209 is now part of California's Constitution. It forbids racial preference in the state's hiring, admissions, and contracting practices. \n\nA link to the full text and other resources are on this page:\nhttp://www.acri.org/209/\n\nThis excerpt from a post on FreeRepublic.com will give you a very brief description of the Initiative and its chilly reception by the powerful in California.\nhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/799138/posts\n\nOn Apr 27, one of the initiative's chief pettitioners, Dr Larry Arnn, now president of Hillsdale College,  will be speaking in Portland. I will be in the audience. If you would like info about Hillsdale, please email me. It is a great school!
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Its where the states got to chose if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. I'm studing the SAME THING!!! Good luck!! =)
1109981
The politicians like to keep it stirred up to win votes from the ignorant. Because it was such an important thing in the past and so many politicians cannot seem to find anything forward-thinking to run on, they keep racism stirred up so they can have something to "solve" for you.\n\nWhen all Americans can tell them to take a hike and ignore the rhetoric, we'll be waaaay ahead.
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I like Thomasfromia's concise answer. Of course it is not an ideal system, but it clearly has helped to overcome centuries of discrimination in educational admissions. All it means is to look at criteria other than test scores and grades in determining admissions, with the goal of a more diversified student body. This allows access to the "pie" to people that otherwise would be shut out. In turn, enlarging this access in the long term decreases economic and social inequities in our society. You might be surprised at how many affirmative action admits, when given the chance, become outstanding, productive citizens.\nSure, I'd rather not have it, but for the sake of our society, I'd rather have it than nothing. Ironically, though, we've always had a different form of affirmative action, one that allowed ill-prepared but wealthy students to get in above those better qualified. The most obvious example is the Ivy League legacy policy that let's in the offspring of the rich. Or how about the policy of "special admitting" athletes who otherwise wouldn't qualify? At least, if you get rid of it, get rid of all such favoritism.\nAs long as all of those who enter the university are required to complete the standards for graduation, I am happy to enlarge the pool of students who are given an opportunity.
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The State legislature set limits on all laws that the Federal Government has no right, Constitutionally speaking, to pass.  Since ALL the states are different you get differing laws in all things.  Discrimination is just one of many areas.
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Because the people who live there wanted it to be. Same as the state your from.
339679
affirmative action is reverse discrimination
848016
Yes, minorities get special treatment. Just like you'd be racist if you decided to start a United White College Fund. It is complete garbage. If it is racist to go one way, it is racist to go the other. Eliminatae race from the equation entirely and just have a United People College Fund!!!!!!!!
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Serveral main reasons.  \n\nFirst due too much better economic conditions than the sh*t hole you live in, more of the American population using Y Answers are younger people who lack experience to respond to more than just basic questions.\n\nThe second reason is that a large percentage are liberal and facts are the last thing of interest to them.\n\nLastly, affirmative action has crowded our colleges with not the most qualified student but students who required the most help to get in.\n\nThe last one, affirmative action, is changing so to get into a decent school now, a student has to be exceptional.  We should see results from the change within a generation as they progress in the work environment.
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Your partly right.  It keeps this country a Federal Republic because what happens when we vote for President we are actually voting for the electorial college. \n\nIf we didn't have the electoral college There wouldn't be any need for canidates to visit all the states.  Then it just comes down to the biggest states.\n\nThe electoral college gives the smaller states a voice in government so that the bigger states can impose their will on the whole country
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No! We never should have had it . Affirmative action is fighting discrimination with discrimination.
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depends on whether you believe in affirmative action or not.  I say yes!