Do We Still Need Affirmative Action?

Do We Still Need Affirmative Action?

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King spoke these words in 1963, and they still resonate today. Affirmative action programs were established to create this very type of equality, but have they brought us closer to Dr. King’s dream or hindered it?

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As Long as Racism and Sexism Exist, Affirmative Action is Still Needed
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  • Jefe
    help me understand

    I am honestly asking this. I work within my state's prison system. I work within the healthcare system in the prison. Please help me understand this: why can blacks call other blacks "nigger" but I would get stabbed for doing so (I am white)? Also, out in the freeworld, why do the races segregate themselves, say by neighborhood, when there is no government intervention? We all have free choice in what house to purchase, but we still tend to live around our own 'kind.' The town I live in has a very small 'government housing' area--most folks here are employed and live in average/typical family homes (the disparity in income is minor as a whole). Income does not appear to be a deciding factor. This town also appears to have nearly equal amounts of hispanics, blacks, and whites (little to no asians). Thanks.

    - JefeUS October 29, 2008 9:36PM

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