Quote Originally Posted by D-END
i agree, another than that american history x WAS MOVIE.
Maybe thats so but that quote is based on reality

"Affirmative action" around here really means "minority quotas".

It means that in many public sector jobs like police, fire and even civil servant they have quotas to fill and regardless of qualifications, and they will fill them because they have to.

That means for a given job (lets say police officer) they have to hire 10 cops this month... the "affirmative action quota" says the force should be x% minorities and we're under that quota, then all the folks hired will be minorities, regardless of if they really are the best qualified or if there are 500 white male applicants better qualified.

I've had it happen to me in the Fire Dept, twice. Same crap happened to an old buddy of mine when he wanted to join the Mounties when he left the army (he was a Military Police instructor 10+ years service, passed all the RCMP admission exams in the top 3% but was turned away because they were only hireing minorities at that time, at least the human resources officer had the balls to tell him the truth)

Whats the peoples reaction? Whats our reaction?

Disgust, distrust and I'd even dare say it CAUSES racism.

I think hireing (or university admissions) should ALWAYS be based on "best person for the job". I don't care what sex colour, religion or ethnic background someone is, only the best qualified person should get a position. And the "two equally qualified candidates" theory is bull, one is ALWAYS better than the other, take the time to find out which has the edge over the other.

Yes in the past there was discrimination... all the good positions went to white males, and if you go further back in the past, it was only white males of a certain social class or caste... but quotas and so called reverse discrimination won't turn back the clock, nor will it fix the errors of the past, it will only CAUSE resentment and racism.

My 2 cents...

Red