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An Interesting Read on Obama and Affirmative Action
2008-08-05 11:31:00 An Interesting Read on Obama and Affirmative Action [RACHEL L. SWARNS was until recently the NY Times Bureau head for South Africa where similar issues exist. Personally I, too, would want to see AA extended beyond race to class and gender. What do you think? Ed Kent] IF ELECTED… Delicate Obama Path on Class ...
Sir McFlipFlop Flip-Flops Again ? He Was FOR Affirmative Action Before He W
2008-07-28 08:57:00 Panamanian “Natural Born U.S. Citzen” And Vietnam War Hero, Señor Panama John McCain, SUDDENLY Takes Anti-Affirmative Action Stance After Years Of Activism In Favor Of Racial Quotas Go... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the latest rantings of a gun toting liberal with a chip on his shoulder... harsh views, comments expressed.
Do Boys Need Affirmative Action?
2008-04-08 06:00:00 The recent issue of Time has an article about de facto affirmative action for boys. I know that, "affirmative action," is one of those hot-button terms that immediately starts arguments and can cause bad feelings, nausea, dizziness, incontinence, and hair loss, so it's probably important to identify just what, exactly, is being referred to as affirmative action in this case. To put it simply, boys (as you know) are slipping behind academically, and are making up an ever-dwindling proportion of college undergraduates. The current national average when it comes to the undergraduate population is about 57-58% female--though it is expected to climb to a 60-40 split in the next several years. Colleges--which still need to attract students, after all--have taken to admitting boys with lesser academic credentials over girls with stronger academic records in order to keep the student population somewhat balanced (or more diverse, if you find the word, "diverse,...
Charlton Heston, Actor and Conservative Icon Has Passed Away
2008-04-06 06:52:00 Charlton Heston, the actor in the classic movies The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, and Planet of the Apes passed away at the age of 84, his family is reporting. Heston was an icon to conservatives. He started off as a liberal and a Democrat, campaigning for Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy, but later in life, he ...
Abolish Affirmative Action?
2008-03-08 16:06:00 Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states - CNN.com Ward Connerly, who heads the American Civil Rights Coalition -- a nonprofit organization working to end racial and gender preferences -- and the main backer of the ballot initiatives, says the 37 word initiative would read: "The state shall not discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting."I'll admit this is a concept I have mixed feelings about. I have often defended Affirmative Action as a necessary evil. I grew up in a predominately white neighborhood, and am a white male. I have never competed for coveted positions in jobs or education so I have never benefited from or been harmed by Affirmative Action. While I have had a few friends of different ethnic backgrounds I have never known anyone who was harmed by or benefited from Affirmative A...
By: Markism Explored
The Affirmative-Action Campaign
2008-03-05 00:00:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton Senator Clinton's campaign emphasis on skill and experience is out of harmony with affirmative action, in which diversity is the prime criterion. My friend Jon Gardner observed, I believe accurately, that the Democratic presidential primary has been driven by the same sort of feelings that impel businesses and ...
By: Publius Forum
The Affirmative Action Debate
2008-02-26 00:00:00 Affirmative action is one of the most controversial political issues facing America.Most often, affirmative action assists disadvantaged groups by improving placement in higher education and employment, and the term is most often conceived as a program to improve the standing of African Americans.People take several stances on the issue, supporting their opinions with various justifications, ...
By: Trading Studio
How Much of Obama?s Success is Because of Affirmative Action?
2008-01-19 03:35:00 Interesting post over at FrontPageMag daring to flick on the light at some things that really get on many American nerves. I can’t think of any tribe of people on this earth that have not experienced some kind of slavery or persecution in their past, present, or future. Sadly, humanity seems to be riddled with ...
Affirmative Action to include class and income. in Liberals Versus Conserva
2008-01-08 00:00:00 Turk, 08/01/08 (21 Replies)
Study: Affirmative Action does NOT work in Law School
2007-10-16 19:46:00 Thanks to Fox News via AboveTheLaw.com. A recent study published by Stanford Law Review, authored by UCLA Law Professor Richard Sander says no, and demands that the California Bar release its data related to student test scores, law school admissions, and bar passage rates.According to the article: Currently only about one in three African-Americans who goes to an American law school passes the bar on the first attempt and a majority never become lawyers at all," says UCLA law professor Richard Sander.In an article published in the Stanford Law Review, Sander and his research team concluded several thousand would-be black lawyers either dropped out of law school or failed to pass the bar because of affirmative action.Sander's claim, the so-called "mismatch effect", is that students who are unprepared and whose academic credentials are below the median, under affirmative action, are admitted to law schools they are unqualified to attend. They then do poorly and do not graduate or pa...
By: Wikilaw
Rush Limbaugh: Affirmative Action Helped Lando Calrissian
2007-09-25 00:00:00 Affirmative action in a galaxy far, far away Rush Limbaugh played an alternative Star Wars version of himself on the Family Guy cartoon show. He’s a laughable putz in both realties. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g9zI-Z2UKbA “My good friends, the liberal galactic media is at it again - they never stop! Now they’re trying to convince us that Hoth is ...
By: Garling Gauge
State of affirmative action in South Africa
2007-06-10 09:04:00 Writes James N. Kariuki Do the wheels of history always turn towards greater justice? Apparently so considering that whenever Black and White people have interacted, some form of racism has emerged.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is Affirmative Action Fair?
2007-05-26 06:52:00 America has a history of racial discrimination, three and a half centuries of maltreatment of its racial minorities. America’s history of racial discrimination in both the public and private sectors, from top to bottom. Discrimination either given official government imprimatur or otherwise condoned and permitted. For generations blacks were denied employment opportunities and chances for advancement, or denied admission into institutions of higher education.After decades of struggles in the courts and streets of this country, after countless deaths of persons demanding that the country live up to the ideals espoused in its most sacred founding documents, the courts of this country determined that, pursuant to law, a remedy was needed to address the long-standing wrongs of racial discrimination. From its English heritage, America jurisprudence mandates that when a wrong has been established, a remedy is appropriate. Often, fashioning the remedy is as difficult a struggle as was es...
on affirmative action
2007-03-26 01:00:00 It has been a while since my last post mainly because I've been kept busy with work. The past couple of weeks have also been spent doing some serious thinking, personal assessment and life planning.I've been getting into a lot of extremely stressful and depressing situations lately and it apparently has caused undesirable effects on my health and personal well being. I'm glad that I have Conne to support and guide me throughout this slump.I learned that you shouldn't just sit around and mope about the negative things that happen to you. You should act on it and confront the problem or at least figure out a way to work around it. Which is exactly what I am going to do. So, here's to affirmative action! :)
Cultural Affirmative Action
0000-00-00 00:00:00 -By Selwyn Duke In a way, I prefer the old, overt affirmative action. While it was government-sanctioned discrimination, at least it was, in some measure, more honest than our cultural affirmative action. There is such a thing. It’s when people in the market and media privilege others – sometimes unconsciously – ...
By: Publius Forum
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