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From: vip@philabs.UUCP (V. I. P.)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Affirmative Action/Discrimination
Message-ID: <346@philabs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 11:22:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 11:22:03 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Jun-85 00:33:39 EDT
Reply-To: vip@philabs.UUCP (V. I. P.)
Organization: Philips Labs, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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Just a suggestion, to solve all the problems with the idea of 
Affirmative Action.  This is intended to be presented mainly
rhetorically...

Recently, a special Congressional Committee decided that all
Japanese interned during the second world war should be
compensated monetarily for their internment.  I would
suggest a similar solution to the Affirmative action
debate.

Simply, figure out the dollar amount owed the
survivors/decendants of forced labor (slavery), and make
payment.  Let's call it compensation for wages deferred.
That along with the Civil Rights Amendment making it illegal
to discriminate in the future (actually, from '64 on) will
even the score.  The affect?  Complete elimination of the
Affirmative Action debate.  No more wimpering from the
liberals about inequities, no more bitching and moaning from
privileged classes about reverse discrimination (which I
don't really believe can exist).

Blacks will then take that money and invest it or do
whatever else they wish with it and in 20 years, or however
long, if there are still poor blacks we can say that they
had their opportunity, etc. to do whatever they wanted.  Now
if course this is an expensive solution, compensating one
person for the wages withheld from perhaps several
generations of his anscestors, but it is a final solution to
the Affirmative Action problem.

					Brian Day