Affirmative Action: Racial Quotas
Affirmative Action/Racial Quotas are another subject on the "don't touch" list.
Let's get a couple things straight. All humans have nearly everything in common.
You can take "O" type blood from a Yellow and put it in a Black. You can take "O" type blood from a Black and put it in a White. You can take a liver from a White and transplant it into a Black. You can take a heart from a Black and transplant it into a Red.
Red, Yellow, White, Black. On the inside we are all the same.
On the outside we have become sensitized to something only skin-deep. We are so sensitive that in the previous sentence if Black is placed at the end of the sentence I would be called racist by the likes of Al Sharpton.
We as a society have become stupid. We have lost sight of the one thing that we should all strive for. That one thing is excellence. Excellence in any field is 90% sweat and 10% talent. He who works hardest gets to be better at whatever than the person who doesn't.
Some of us are gifted in specific special ways. Would Cassius Clay, later renamed Mohommed Ali have excelled as a brain surgeon? Would Dr. Christian Barnard, who performed the first heart transplant, been able to compete with Michael Jordan on a basketball court?
Let's now inject affirmative action into the above paragraph. Say that White Dr. Barnard decides that he is good enough to play basketball with the 7 foot giants even though he didn't put in the same hours of hard work they did to build their excellence. Dr. Barnard hires a fancy priced lawyer, let's say Johnnie Cochran. Johnnie C. takes it to court and chants "if he can play ball you gotta give him it all"...and the lawyer selected jury forces the Chicago Bulls to accept Barnard on their team. And the court says not only that but if you bench him that's discrimination against him and he has the right to sue the Bulls for damages. So the quality of the team is forced legally to suffer.
This hypothetical example is actually in practice in similar situations in real life. Students have been forced into medical schools because of their race to the exclusion of other more qualified students. How would you like a doctor from an affirmative action program to operate on your heart if he graduated at the bottom of the class? How would you like it if your business was penalized just because of the color of the owner's skin? Do you think it's right for the government to force airlines to allow grossly obese stewardesses to work on the tightly cramped isles on jet planes? How would you like to have a 98 pound female firefighter try to carry a 200 pound unconscious man out of a house on fire?
And on the other scale you have political correctness injected into the Affirmative Action/Racial Quota system. Female soldiers were raped in the Gulf War when they were captured. Single sex schools are being forced to accept students outside the school's initial design, generally it's female students invading male schools, claiming discrimination. There are lots more examples. But let me continue.
How come the great basketball and football teams don't have to include females in their lineups? Because they have political correctness protecting them. It's not politically correct to mess with sports teams dominated by Black atheletes. There are also no female golfers that can compete with Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, or Arnold Palmer. And in those cases lawsuits by females in the same field would go nowhere. Why no here and yes in some other field? Think about it.
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