Affirmative Action
Ok, we need a thread on this, it seems to have fallen out of the backroom. Let's debate on it. I'll start with a small writing I did once.
Picture it. You just graduated from high school. You had the best grades in your class, near-perfect SAT scores, tons of community service and extracurricular activities, the works. You apply to, let’s say, Princeton. The interview goes well, so well, in fact, you’re almost guaranteed a place in their freshmen class. A few weeks pass, and every day you excitedly go check the mail. Nothing. Until one day, while sifting through a pile of bills and coupons, you stumble across a letter from Princeton University. Your heart races and veins bulge as you hastily run to your room, scattering the rest of the mail all over your living room. You jump on your bed, barely falling off as your fingers nimbly tear open the envelope and unfold the letter. Your face quickly goes from the exalted face of someone who has just one a million dollars to the face of someone who just found out their parents died. Your eyes dart over the page, again and again, as if they wished to read different words each time. After minutes of complete shock, you finally come to your senses and face the facts. You were not accepted.
You were passed over for a minority student with lower test scores, a mediocre class rank, no community service, and a criminal record. You curse the gods, you curse the country, you curse your family, you curse the student, but most of all you curse yourself. How could this happen to you? In your mind, you go back in time, meticulously scanning every action of your life for the past four years. You find nothing wrong. But who is to blame? You may not see it immediately, but a government program put in place to help defend the rights of minorities has stripped your future from you. That program is Affirmative Action.
But why is this program in place if it can destroy the hopes and futures of American students? Why doesn’t the government do something about this? Is it because that was their intention; to harm the future of America? Or is the plot much more deep and sickening than that?
Originating as far back as 1965, Affirmative Action was originally meant to help African Americans and other ethnic minorities attain an equal status in American Society. That being said, overall, it doesn’t seem like a bad idea. However, it was only originally intended to represent a transitional period lasting one or two decades, for Blacks to be fully integrated into society. Fast forward forty years. In the year 2005, Affirmative Action has forced itself as a permanent hindrance to the advancement of American society. In a time where ethnic minorities have attained equality under the law, and are supposed to be held accountable for their actions, many of them still fall behind the rest of America in their advancement into the future. This is in no way the fault of the average American, no; it is the fault of those who refuse to hold responsibility for their own actions and hide behind government programs such as Affirmative Action. If the American people were to rid themselves of the roadblock that is Affirmative Action, we, as a whole, would advance into an age where race and gender do not matter, and comradeship would prevail over personal grudges and prejudices. However, with Affirmative Action, the American people can never reach such a state.
Affirmative Action, in it’s current state of being, is detrimental to every part of American society. First of all, it is a major detriment to our businesses and universities. Affirmative Action groups, while vehemently denying such actions, have forced upon our businesses a sort of Racial Quota, where certain numerical quotas for members of an ethnic group to either be accepted or hired into a business are in place. If the businesses are not met, they run the risk of being slandered or worse yet, being sued by members of the ethnic group. While, in a landmark decision by the Supreme Court in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the de jure use of Racial quotas, many of such quotas still exist in a de facto state. Many universities will show preference to ethnic minorities such as Africans or Hispanics to make up for large amounts of White, European students (a form of institutional racism). Also, many universities are forced by Affirmative Action groups into “taking into consideration the cultural, ethnic, and economical background of the student being assessed.” Basically, this means that they admissions boards are forced to show preference to poor ethnic minorities simply because they are poor ethnic minorities. Again, this is a form of institutional racism. To make matters worse, this is legal (See: Grutter vs. Bollinger, 2003), because The Supreme Court ruled that race could be used as a criterion in school admissions and that it would not be in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The Court found that the University of Michigan Law School's narrowly-tailored policy was constitutional and appropriate "to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body."
This mentality makes several large assumptions. It assumes that every culture puts an equal emphasis on education and learning, something that is obviously not true. With the emerging “Gangsta’” Culture, which puts virtually no value on education, it is impossible to say that African Americans, as a whole, put the same emphasis on educations as Asians, who, arguably, put more emphasis on education and learning than anyone else. Therefore, if brought up under a culture that does not support education, one cannot put nearly the same quality and work into their schooling than someone that was brought up in a culture that highly values education. Also, the idea that these problems lie in the school systems rather in the cultures themselves is absurd. For the most part, teachers do not show preference to a certain ethnic group, and to lower the standards of our education and employment to accommodate these cultural differences only hinders the effect of the education or employment in question.
Another assumption is that biologically all ethnicities are equal. Although I realize that I shall be called many labels, amongst them “Nazi” and “Racist” for this statement, the simple fact is that they are not. Studies dating back to 1850s have consistently showed that certain ethnic groups naturally have a lower Intelligence Quotient than others. A very good article can be located at the following web address: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence], and many anthropological studies have proven that, on average, all races are not in fact of equal intelligence. Asians have been proven to have the highest average intelligence, whites the next highest, and Africans the lowest. However, every race does have it’s qualities, and instead of lowering standards of certain jobs to accommodate all races “equally,” one should focus on what each people’s specialty is, and therefore integrate them into society without deteriorating other parts of society.
Affirmative Action doesn’t only affect our chances to get jobs and an education; it also interferes with even our most basic freedoms. Advocates of such programs as Affirmative Action have created a culture based on the guilt of the white man for sins his ancestors committed hundreds of years ago. As a race, White’s are still forced to bear the burdens of slavery, the holocaust, pogroms in Russia and the Ukraine, religious persecutions, et cetera et cetera et cetera. The generations that committed these crimes have long since died, however Affirmative Action and Racialist groups force us to keep the issue at the forefront and refuse to allow us to put these things behind us. Also, every race is guilty of it’s crimes. When have we held Turks accountable for the Armenian Genocide, or their slave trading in the middle ages? When have we held blacks responsible for the race crimes they commit against us on a regular basis (Most victims of race crime – about 90 per cent – are white, according to the survey "Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims," published in 1993.). Never, but yet, not only are we reminded of the past, we are forced to believe in farcical statistics that claim minorities to be the only victims of race crimes. In almost every debate about race crimes, someone brings up statistics about White racists murdering countless African victims. However, statistics prove otherwise.
• About 90% of the victims of interracial crimes are white.
• Blacks commit 7.5 times more violent interracial crimes than whites, although whites outnumber blacks by 7 to 1.
• Blacks murder more than 1,600 whites each year.
• Blacks murder whites at 18 times the rate whites murder blacks.
• On a per capita basis, blacks commit 50 times more violent crime than whites.
These statistics come from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, you will never hear of them on the news, because of pro-Affirmative Action and Racialist groups. And, on the event that they do come up, Affirmative Action groups claim that this is because of unequal economical conditions. They fail to realize that Affirmative Action, which is nothing short than full blown racism, is the cause of this. By creating a legal shield for minorities to hide behind, they only can suffer.
However, because of the guilt culture minorities have created, we can never mention this. We can never mention the fact that, as a race, Whites have suffered far more than any other minority (Armenian Genocide, Stalinist Purges, the Holocaust [about half of the 11 million killed were white, and over 4 million of them were Catholics], World War Two, The fire bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, September 11th, the Beslan Hostage Crisis, London Bombings, the Russian Airplane Bombings, et al; the victims of these tragedies were predominantly white and many of the more recent ones were caused by what in America today is considered an Ethnic Minority), yet our suffering means naught, as crimes have been committed against other ethnicities. American law suggests that all men are created equal, however, that is not true. While all men are born equal, some become a greater being by actions and virtues, and Affirmative Action only hinders many of these men from becoming truly great. Under the assumption that all men are equal, Mother Theresa is the same as Charles Manson, or Ivan Cooper being equal to Adolf Hitler. Men become what they are only through their actions, and if they are given an easy way out of life, they can never reach their full potential, and their race is doomed to repeat the mistakes of their forefathers, and until Affirmative Action is removed from law, those affected can never reach their potential, nor can those who’s dreams are crushed because of it.
“We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.” – Nietzsche
Originally Posted by Aurelian
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