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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Discrimination Continues to Exist
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  • cbooh
    still exists

    Does discrimination still exist ... Yes... my son had always wanted to work for the Railroad... An add in a local newspaper stated that railroad workers was needed it also stated that women and minorities were welcome.. Well my son who was 20 at the time drove to another town 100 miles away to apply. We he got there the immediately called all the black men and all women in for interviews and 2 white men who had union cards that they had to take in.. The requirements for this job was to be able to lift 100 lbs. in order to hook trains together.. most of the women they kept did not even weigh that much.. the black men were all in business suits looking for management jobs ..My son a strong 20 yr old who had worked on a farm his whole life and could do the job was sent home along with all the rest of the white men.. Does discrimination exist.. Yes for all people and especially this day in time for white people..

    - cboohUS October 29, 2009 3:41PM

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