Obama and the NAACP

[BgMc31]

Do you believe that the reverse racist policies of the left such as affirmative action and quotas are going in the right direction to rectifying the race inequities? Race is a social construction, and I personally do not believe that the questionnaires regarding race should even exist on job applications of any sort. Additionally, I feel that Constitutionally speaking, it is the prerogative of the store owner/business owner/etc, to discriminate under any grounds he pleases, be it education, experience, the shirt you're wearing, the color of your hair, etc. I believe that would rightly fall under property rights.

I don't believe affirmative action and quotas are reverse racism. To deny that workplace discrimination or educational opportunities (or lack thereof) doesn't still exist today if foolhearted. If they didn't exist who do statistics prove that black men are paid less than white menfor equal work when educational background and experience are similar? Same with women and other minorities...

RIght i agree with you, but tracing your africian leniage to the slave trade further encourages/supports the notion in bold... and when blacks use that as a defense its hard to look past that...

Since when has this been a black construct? You mean to tell me Italian Americans don't emphasize their heritage, Polish Americans, Mexican Americans, Jews, etc., etc. Blacks aren't the only ones who identify culturally with their leniage. Plus very few blacks emphasize African heritage. Very few of us know of true African culture, unlike Italians, Hispanics, Poles, etc., we have no language or other cultural mores that are uniquely African. Blacks have a unique culture that is distinctly American but shared by only Black Americans and that culture was formed in the slave trade and continued post slavery, through reconstruction, Jim Crowe, the Civil Right Movement, and today with the inception of the Nation's first Black president.

I bet I can trace back to a time when my descendants were slaves...oh wait I think most of them were slaughtered in mass. What were they called, you know those worthless inhuman natives? Ah, not important...back to how the Blacks have been treated so bad...carry on.

And there aren't any Native American civil rights groups? Just because the African American one's make the most noise, they're a problem?