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But I don't belive you. Because if you did not like affirmative-action you would have not just mentioned it when it came to blacks.
This redistribution of wealth stuff is also crap. The government has GIVEN NO-BID contracts to white owned companies from the inception of this country. Affirmative-action Mr. Buck was put in place by a Republican named Dick Nixon. The reason it was put in place is because this society atthat time was incapable of living out the creed it professed, that all people had inalieable rights and had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Affirmative-action has helped create some since of equal access to college for the masses of Afican-Americans. Black were not just denied access to schools but when given access they were met with hostilities such as yours. NO matter if your the President of the Harvard Law School people such as you think less then of Blacks. Blacks have no rights that some whites (some whites) believe they have to respect.
Let me give you some facts. During the reconstruction period blacks were electing blacks to the house and senate but whites like you decided blacks were to dumb to be elected officials so they voted troop out of the south and commenced lynching blacks by the thousands. They stoled blacks land,as I said did not fund schools blacks attended and cheated blacks out of land and wages. Blacks were charged more for insurance, health care and ever other amenity. This did not change until 1954. Mr. Buck do you get it. Not until 1954 were blacks allowed to open access to public institutions that they paid taxes for. Black who participated in every war could not come home and excersize the same rights they defended.
Many blacks were denied the same G.I bill that allowed your ancestors to build wealth, go to school and excell in society. But not only that Buck. While you say blacks who went to school scored less on their admittance it has been proven that admittance test don't determine how well one will do in college. In fact I would bet you have the same problem that whites who massacred blacks in Tulsa Ok,Flordia and New York had with so called unqualified blacks. You actually resent their achievement under tremendous odds of oppression. I mean if black like Barack are so dumb how in the hell are they so successful. Oh I forgot you good white folks gave it to them. They didn't do anything to get where they are. They didn't study,go to work, class or campaign. They just gave a good speech. LOL!
Guess what Mr. Buck look around your house. Look at hospitals and even the street light. You wil find that most of the items you are blessed to use were invented by people that were not allowed to enter your schools because the racist gate keepers of education said they were not qualified. All you have to do is google Black inventions and you will see that from the first blood infusion to the golf tee blacks have enhanced your life.
You are mad because some blacks who did not do as well as you got into school. Damn everytime I look at Bush I see a person who boasted about being a "C" student as President. Neither Rush LImbaugh or Sean Hannity have a degree in anything but they both are on the radio.
Affirmative action has been around a long time Buck some call it white priviledge others call it racism.
