So you that strongly support affirmative action? How do white people "have all the chips"? If you come from a rich family youre going to whatever school you want anyway, most likely be able to get a good paying job through connections through your rich family or that you made at your expensive private school. Its not rich people that are being passed-over by affirmative action, its middle-class and poor people that are, people who in no way had any more "chips" than anyone else.
My ancestors were for the most part Irish, they didnt own any slaves. Hell, they barely owned anything. They came over on a boat like the rest of the poor people, were conscripted into the Union Army, and then went back to the slums with the rest of the Irish people.
My family lives in a middle-class suburb, my dad makes 60K a year working at a company that does something with ceramic engineering, and my step-mother works part-time at a jewlery store. With 2 little brothers, my parents cant afford to send my to private schools, and could only help with college, not pay in full. So if I were to be passed over for grants, tuition assistance, or anything similar based on the color of my skin and not based on factors such as GPA, test scores, etc., how would that be right? Because I wasnt born into a race that was enslaved?
FACT: No person who was a slave in the US is alive today.
FACT: Any person in the US of African decent has no right to bitch about what didnt happen to them.
FACT: Most of Africa is nothing more than a cespool of famine, disease, war, and poverty. Seems like in the end it worked out for everyone in the US.
And for the record, people should only be divided into 3 groups not based on race. Intelligent/capable, ignorant/stupid, and muslims. But we wont get into that.
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