Tag: affirmative action
|
January 21, 2008 11:39 AM EST --
Don't tell me that the U.S. government has no business protecting the hiring of designated minorities, since that very same U.S. government was VERY ACTIVE in promoting . . .
more
|
|
January 21, 2008 11:51 AM EST --
A fellow gather posed the question: "Do We Still Need Affirmative Action in this Modern Day and Age?"
To which I responded: "Absolutely, and if people don't understand . . .
more
|
|
October 08, 2006 07:24 PM EDT --
Does anyone have any opinons on this? On the afrimative action aspect, but more importantly on the illegal immigrant aspect of it.
Illegal Advantage
Lawbreakers vault to the front of the college-admissions . . .
more
|
|
December 08, 2006 06:49 PM EST --
Agriculture subsidies. Affirmative action. Diversity policies in school admissions. Universal health care. Welfare.
What do all of these things have in common? They’re . . .
more
|
|
November 22, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
Consider the following hypothetical scenarios:
==========================================================
You have worked at your company for several years; you finished your Masters Degree in your . . .
more
|
|
July 03, 2009 11:16 AM EDT --
A couple of early comments have convinced me that I need to give my bona fides as to my 'right' to post this . I AM a white male, born 1942. Gonna die later on.
I wrote a response to . . .
more
|
|
August 02, 2008 01:07 PM EDT --
What is Racism? Racism or racialism is a form of discrimination based on race, especially the belief that one race is superior to another. Racism may be expressed individually and consciously, through . . .
more
|
|
October 31, 2006 01:07 PM EST --
Black Brazil seeks a better future
By Robert Plummer
BBC News, Sao Paulo
A university named after a 17th-Century rebel slave leader in Brazil is at the forefront of a controversy over the country's . . .
more
|
|
August 05, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
Barack Obama may have thrown the controversial Reverend Wright under the proverbial bus, but Wright’s message still resonates in his comments. In the upcoming issue of Essence Magazine, Barack Obama . . .
more
|
|
September 16, 2008 10:49 AM EDT --
I was talking to a friend yesterday I hadn't spoken with in a while. The conversation drifted, as such conversations tend to do, all over the place. Eventually, the conversation . . .
more
|
|
May 27, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
GOP's Plan of Attack
GOP's Plan of Attack
Conservatives are scrambling to form a plan to oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor but are worried opposing the first Latina justice would . . .
more
|
|
November 15, 2006 11:32 AM EST --
Voters in Michigan gave 58 percent approval to a measure banning Affirmative Action in the public sector last week. It was just one in a series of a measures voters approved nationwide that many activists . . .
more
|
|
October 09, 2007 02:51 PM EDT --
First seeing as there has been almost no Congressional Legislation passed in the last decade or so, there will be almost no action there in congressional oversight.
In other areas I see the Affirmative . . .
more
|
|
June 07, 2008 06:58 PM EDT --
Affirmative action is becoming a hot topic again this election season.
Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma have proposed outlawing the racially biased institution of affirmative action. . . .
more
|
|
June 25, 2007 02:34 PM EDT --
The New York Post has an article today which outlines the problems with race based admissions in our school system, and affirmative action as a whole. Quotas which were initially instituted to help minorities . . .
more
|
|
August 02, 2006 12:02 PM EDT --
This fall, only 96 of the more than 4,700 incoming freshman at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - a mere 2 percent - are African American.
All nine universities in the University of California . . .
more
|
|
November 22, 2006 03:14 PM EST --
Wow! Just saw this article right now. While I'm very pro affirmative action, I don't really have a problem with this scholarship (except that it was created by Republicons.) I actually think it's . . .
more
|
|
May 28, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
The title of this post will in all likelihood recieve harsher criticisim than the words that follow, however after reading Thomas Sowell’s editorial today, no other title would be appropriate. The . . .
more
|
|
October 31, 2006 04:49 PM EST --
I'll start by saying that everyone is entitled to their own opinion on this...but I feel that affirmative action should be outlawed..
A person should NOT be given special consideration for education . . .
more
|
|
April 11, 2007 12:51 PM EDT --
“Nappy Headed Ho’s” could actually hurt me…
Seems that Don Imus has managed to offend the Black community with these words. Geez how petty can we get, but while we are . . .
more
|
|
|
|
