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From: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: White greed
Message-ID: <6545@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 22:00:59 EST
Article-I.D.: rocheste.6545
Posted: Fri Feb 15 22:00:59 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Feb-85 15:26:37 EST
References: <170@nybcb.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell)
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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Summary: 

In article <170@nybcb.UUCP> daly@nybcb.UUCP (daly) writes:
>
>>>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. {...several arguments against affirmative action plans...}
>>>
>
>>    There are many problems with America's programs to help disadvantaged
>>    people. Intelligent debate is precisely what we need to create fair
>>    and effective solutions to the social and economic problems facing
>>    this country.
...Blacks had their rights, etc. stolen...
>>    Until white people recognize that they are simply being asked to
>>    share their ill-gotten gains, there will be little room for intelligent
>>    debate about anything.
>>
>>-michael
>
>   WRONG!!!!!
>   Not all white Americans have benefited from slavery. 
>   I haven't received any inheritance from anyone, nor do I see how I have 
>   benefited from slavery. My ancestors came from Ireland in the early 1900's. 
>   They did not benefit from slavery either. So much for your simple fact &
>   your "inteligent debate".
>                                             seismo!cmcl2!nybcb!daly
Come on, man! Use your head. Such anecdotal information ("well, my brother
Ferd hasn't benefited...") doesn't prove anything. What michael is talking
about can be proven *statistically*: Black people are still feeling the 
effects of 300 years of discrimination. Try looking at the unemployment rates
for Black teenagers sometime. This is a *societal* problem, that needs broad-
based solutions before it can be corrected.

"If you want to judge a society, look in its prisons."

gary cottrell	(allegra or seismo)!rochester!gary  (UUCP)
		gary@rochester (ARPA)