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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
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Subject: Re: American(?) Music Awards <<FLAME>>
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Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 22:01:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 10 22:01:40 1985
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From: nm34@sdcc12 ? (nm34)
>     You are forgetting, Scott, that in our country, blacks are
>different. They have been subjected to centuries of disadvantage. What
>you are saying is like telling a person who is in a race, where their
>oponent was given a 10 yard head-start, that its now time for everything
>to be equal.

Please explain to me why *I* should be penalized for something my *ancestors*
did?  Yes, whites in America did something most people consider wrong, years
ago.  But the people who were hurt by it (the slaves) certainly aren't the o
nes getting the affirmative action, and the people who did the hurting aren't 
being punished.  Sure, blacks were enslaved and women were treated as 
inferiors, BUT no one is keeping the blacks here now and no one is forcing 
women to stay home.  Excuse me if I sound unsympathetic, but I've been asked 
my race and sex once too often and told that it mattered.  

(And for a slightly different angle: how many blacks and women resent
affirmative action as an indication that they can't get jobs on their own
merits?)

I prefer to get hired because I'm qualified, thank you.  And I'd like to know
that my co-workers are competent, and are really the best people for the job.

							-Dragon

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