<p>"perhaps the first step toward racial integration is for blacks to stop claiming everything and everyone to be racist haters?"</p>
<p>That's the biggest load of ******** I've ever read. If we're going to play the blame game, the only people I'd point the finger to is the white people of America. White people in this country do such a good job at discriminating against colored people that even the white people of several other countries look down on white Americans. </p>
<p>Take a trip south of the board, into Latin America, and talk to the upper class white people in those countries. It's not nearly as bad there as it is here.</p>
<p>i'm assuming that you are black, armando? i respect your racial pride, but is your attitude REALLY conducive to a healing of relationships? all i hear from you is hatred, spite, and vengeance. how do you really propose to solve the problem? kill every white guy on earth?</p>
<p>This is the only AA-related case this summer, though some news commentators were predicting college-related challenges to come up within a year or two.</p>
<p>I brought this up on a thread last week. Are we headed for a bifurcated AA system for college admissions with private colleges continuing this policy?</p>
<p>I love the passion. Maybe, we can direct it to school vouchers? </p>
<p>No taxpayer should pay for an education her child does not recieve. No child should be forced to attend public school if his parent would rather private. Vouchers will not eliminate racial problems, but they can reduce them. There's one good public school. A Student is not place in it. He'll attend a private school or a charter. That's what I do, but I have to pay for it and pay taxes. It's unfair.</p>
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"perhaps the first step toward racial integration is for blacks to stop claiming everything and everyone to be racist haters?"</p>
<p>That's the biggest load of ******** I've ever read. If we're going to play the blame game, the only people I'd point the finger to is the white people of America. White people in this country do such a good job at discriminating against colored people that even the white people of several other countries look down on white Americans.
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<p>Boy, you know, that's kinda funny. You just said that that statement was ********, but then went on to basically call all whites racist, exactly the attitude attacked in the quote.</p>
<p>Ah well, I guess whites really are the problem. I mean, even though the United States has a system of rigorously enforced political correctness stronger than that of any other country on earth, it's racism that's the problem. The system must not be working. Whites must go. More crimespeech. Black power!</p>
<p>As for the decision, I definitely support it, but it didn't go far enough. It's time that the entire illegal practice of affirmative action was banned. I really don't understand how federally funded universities get around the very clear wording of the first paragraph of the 1964 Civil Rights Act:</p>
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To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes.
<p>Give me a break. Who do you think originated the concept of segregation in America? Ever hear of the "one drop" rule?</p>
<p>While my orginal comment may have emotionally charged and it did generalize an entire group of people, at least I didn't have the nerve to insult an entire race's intellegence. Come on...at least I can justify my statement.</p>
<p>...How many blacks do you think get by on affirmative action anyway (I assume that who you meant by morons)?</p>
<p>^^ too many. affirmative action has become more unfair than fair. if race is considered with as much weight as any other predetermined personal quality it might be ok. but when the difference is 200+ points on the SAT it becomes excessive</p>
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<p>Obviously you can't comprehend simple sentences. I said morons who get by based on race. I didn't call African Americans or Hispanics morons. I called people who get by in life based on race morons. You on the other hand insulted an entire race.</p>
<p>Yes, that is exactly what happened. Um..I don't think that there are too many people who can get by based on race alone. If there are, I'd like to meet him or her. By the way, there's only one race who I think could get by with average stats on race alone.</p>
<p>Um... Brown vs Board was to make segregation illegal, not to make integration a requirement. It was meant to allow anyone into any school, but not to force white and black people to be together and like it. It was more to create an equal opportunity to go to a school. What they do today with racial ratios (or skin color ratios for those of you who do not believe in races) is not what the decision was meant for. Forced integration should be illegal.</p>
<p>"Boy, you know, that's kinda funny. You just said that that statement was ********, but then went on to basically call all whites racist, exactly the attitude attacked in the quote."</p>
<p>You and I know damn well I'm not referring to all white people. But if I need to spell it out so that you can comprehend, fine, CERTAIN white people. And funny, you didn't even read that I was discussing white people in the U.S., not the entire world. So it wouldn't even have been possible for me to be referring to "all white people."</p>
<p>"Gotta love morons who get by because of their race, never mind the millions of white and asians in poverty!"</p>
<p>Please, you honestly think colleges don't take into consideration that an applicant is 10x poorer than the rest?</p>
<p>Funny, you're probably going to be working for one of those "morons" one day.</p>
<p>"Yes, that is exactly what happened. Um..I don't think that there are too many people who can get by based on race alone. If there are, I'd like to meet him or her. By the way, there's only one race who I think could get by with average stats on race alone."</p>
<p>That's just what people tell themselves when a minority takes their spot at the college of their choice.</p>
<p>I'd love to hear alternative suggestions on how to deal with the problems of inner-city poverty that don't involve attempting to reform the education system - be it by required integration (although personally I'd like to see required integration based on income bracket) or an equitable distribution of funding to schools not entirely based on property tax. I'm disgusted by the whole phenomenon of white flight. People move out to the suburbs and tell themselves that poor minorities in the city are not their problem. They <em>are</em>. They're everyone's problem. Yes, it's true that there are many poor whites and asians in the country. But I think we can all agree that blacks and hispanics suffer the most from inadequate schools. Clearly this plan was not logistically practical and it adversely affected many people. But I believe that its intention was a good one.</p>