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aklim · #8 05-15-2008, 07:00 PM

I don't believe we can ever solve it by just talking. Talking is cheap. There is only one way to solve it once and for all. DIY. You cannot just tell me I have to get over my discrimination of a group. That group has got to stand up and prove that my discrimination is baseless. So, if I want to stop being called something bad, I need to MAKE YOU shut up by making you look foolish every time you call me that bad name. You hushing me up or not letting me say it is not going to help. You making me give you a handicap isn't going to help either. In fact, quite the reverse. It gives me ammunition in the fight.

Look at the Japs. After WWII, Americans and other Asian countries hated them for what they have done. Their products were inferior. What did they do? They didn't pout and scream about it. Fast Forward to today. Toyota is publicly aiming to surpass Ford, IIRC.

As a minority, I can think of nothing worse than Affirmative Action when it comes to discrimination. What are you telling me? That I cannot compete in a fair race which explains the handicap? Lets look on the other side. If some guy tells me that I got where I did by AA, what can I say but acknowledge that I am inferior? If I were given the choice of a white or minority doctor, why would I choose the white guy? Because I know he wasn't helped by AA. Can I be as certain of the minority doctor? As a white man, don't you think I will feel resentful that Joe Minority got the goal because he was a minority? Think that all you tell me about the history, etc, etc, will ever help? My father didn't own slaves and neither did I.

Yes, all this conversation and all that is well intentioned. However we know what the road to hell is paved with, don't we? Don't tell me that without AA, this, that or the other will happen or not happen. That is ancient history. Lets deal with today. You cannot end discrimination by another form of discrimination. You end it by making me have to have you. Look at the NFL. Black people have proven to be better and the teams are reflecting that.