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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ultra Magnus: [QB] This is it, I think (repeated, for emphasis): <blockquote>Say a black man and a white man apply for this job, and that the black man is far more qualified. Yet, my grandfather hires the white man, simply because of his race. This would be called racism, no? Now, say the tables are reversed. I'm applying for a job, for which I am well-qualified. A black person, not nearly as qualified, applies for the same job. The black person gets the job, simply because of his race. It's the EXACT SAME SITUATION, so why would you not call this racism as well?</blockquote> Unless there's some seeming underlying hidden 'Guns For All' message embedded in this, I'd have to agree. Not with Omega, but these sentences. Your forefathers (And mine too, perhaps, even though I only have one), mistreated black peoples and violated human rights. Undeniable fact, assuming you're not a historical revisionist. The Civil Rights movement, to the best of my knowledge, (Which isn't astounding, consisting of how to make cheese puffs, why frolicking naked in the rain is bad, and to stay away from the Man Train) was an effort to bring recognition of rights of minorities, to the majority (being the white man). By equal, the assumption is made that decisions and such matters aren't to be made by racial distinction. Yet, apparently we do have work quotas and student quotas and any number of other quotas for any number of things. I would argue that programs like Affirmative Action create special status for minorities and while I disdain using buzzwords, equal employment opportunities , in theory, are a tremendous practice. However, to use an example, Say I were running a business called SleepSheep, creating inflatable sheep novelty toys for farmers and Charles. I want to hire 10 people. I look at 10 resumes and pick the ten best applicants. They are all white. Or all Black. Am I racist? Should I lower the quality of my product by allowing the second-best candidates in, because they're black, or because they're white? I would imagine that quality of the SleepSheep would be the top concern. Equal Employment Opportunities to me, mean that the best people get the best jobs. Logical, I believe. (I understand and am aware of the parallel argument to this; that of black children perhaps not getting proper education, due to their situation. That is another can, presumably filled with worms.) Slavery isn't alive and well in the Free World today. Racism is, undoubtledly, but not as proficient as it was, and is, by all accounts, decreasing due to education and exposure. There comes a time where it is unfair to cast blame on us, on our generation, far removed from those that committed atrocities in the past. We can never forget, but it makes little sense for [i]us[/i] to atone. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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