re: #325 Flyers1974

Those on the left are currently against getting rid of it because it has been a part of liberal orthodoxy for so long (and for good reasons in my opinion) and because getting rid of it will be politically difficult. It will go, when and by what process is beyond me. But bear in mind, the right was against it for reasons of knee-jerk orthodoxy and political expediency and in my opinion, a willful ignorance of what private and government enforced discrimination did to blacks.

I’d have to disagree.
A) At the risk of sounding indelicate, as long as there is a seperate class of peoples in a minority that is benifitting by a gov’t program there is no way it could even be legisalted out without the majority being labeled as racists for CENTURIES to come.
B) As someone upthread mentioned, what should have been worked at was Dr. Kings dream, NOT mandated by a gov;t entity, (other than an employer could not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, nor sex) but rather by education. You will never legisalte out racism or bigiotry. In fact, it can be argueed that AA made those deeper by resentment.