Letters to the Editor
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well said. affarmative action is racist. agaisnt all races.
"WHITE: But we gave you affirmative action. We gave you welfare.
BLACK: Yes, and those things helped, for a time. But even the effective application of those policies revealed a somewhat paternalistic - and racist - attitude towards our race. White liberals may have had the best intentions in creating those systems, but the end result is generations of dependency, poverty and hopelessness. What we really need are opportunities to help ourselves, rather than handouts which simply make us dependent on our old masters. We need black-owned businesses, black-owned banks, black-owned corporations. We don't need you to "give" them to us - but we need you to make it just as easy for a black American to do it as a white. And it just isn't so. The welfare system essentially created a new form of slavery, and little has been done to correct it.
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I would add, rather than african americans being easier to get ownership, it should be the same for all. I think color of skin is less important than social "class" as viewed by the job. Or poor people. More oppurtunites for poor none college grads, all races. That is the fix. Not specific for any race. It's not about race, it's about money. those who have it and those don't. African americans have a point in this regard, as a less percentage would be considered wealthy.
having said that, whatever change happens cannot be race based. it must be financially based.