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Old 03-12-2008, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by G-Benz View Post
If an underpriviledged college hopeful chooses to fall back on being a certain race to obtain a scholarship, so be it.

But considering the availability of scholarships (many that go unused due to lack of general knowledge of their existence), any person with adequate academic credentials can apply for a scholarship that uses criteria other than race to reward the individual.
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And the same should apply to affirmative action in the workplace. If a person is qualified, race shouldn't matter. If a person is not qualified, race shouldn't matter. Biasing a workplace census to reflect the ethnicity ratio in the region of the employer does not help the situation. Instead it puts unqualified people in positions merely because of their race or heritage, not in spite of it.
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