Text 43247, 63 rader
Skriven 2006-11-26 16:37:57 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 43118 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
Ärende: JFK on Hitler
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22 Nov 06 23:03, Dale Shipp wrote to Roy Witt:

 DS>>>   I hope that you don't mean that.   The civil rights legislation
 DS>>> was
 DS>>>   major progress in human relations in this country.

 RC>>> Not all of it was successful, I think what Roy inferred was the
 RC>>> affirmative  action laws that sprung up from the civil rights acts.
 RC>>> You

 DS>>    If that is what he meant, he could have said so -- rather than
 DS>>    putting down the entire progress that was made.

 RW>> Progress?! You mean taking jobs away from whites just to give them
 RW>> to minorities is progress! Good grief that's pathetic thinking!

 DS>   Would you rather to have continued the status quo where the
 DS> minorities
 DS>   did not have access to those jobs, nor to the things (e.g.
 DS> education)
 DS>   that allowed them to train for them?

I would have been ok with them getting an education and some training
before they were just given those jobs. Instead, the burden of educating
them was put on industry.

 DS>   And yes, I do mean that allowing minorities to have decent jobs
 DS>   previously reserved for whites only was progress.

Can't agree with that. Inexperienced and uneducated people need to get
there experience in schools or find a trade school first. Or, as is the
custom, start at the bottom with the other people who don't know anything.

 DS> I do mean that allowing minorities access to decent eduation and
 DS> training was progress.

As long as they didn't displace a more qualified person of any color.
Putting an average or below average student in college before someone with
a better grade average is ludricrous.

 DS>    I do mean that allowing minorities access to public facilities for
 DS> the first time was progress.

Where I went to school, there was no such thing as discrimination because
of race, by the school admin. Minorities had the same opportunities as
anyone else. Now, the blacks there didn't believe in that, as they
discriminated against the one each Mexican and Chinese students there.
After the whites, the blacks were a majority who practised racial
discrimination.

 DS>  If you think that it was not, then you are the one guilty of
 DS> pathetic thinking.

Pathetic thinking would be that which puts at the head of the line
someone not qualified, displacing someone who is...

               R\%/itt




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