Another reason why I think that much of the preferential treatment dressed up as affirmative action, racial quotas and other similarly styled programs is bogus is that some of it functions as middle-class welfare. One of the most important, if not the most important goals is lifting more people up and out of the poverty cycle. At some point a person has to sink or swim entirely on their own merits. People have to be made to stop hogging the limited resources that are being made available, and give someone else a turn at getting the same leg-up that was granted them.GunsmithKitten said:And despite all that, despite all that crap we went through, and the crap we STILL go through, do you see me calling for preferential hiring of gays? Do you see me calling for employers to pass over qualified straights to give gays a job?
The laws should be about dealing primarily with poverty. I don't care what skin colour they happen to have. If a person was raised in a comfortable middle-class environment then they shouldn't be going to the government with their hand out, let alone opportunistically taking advantage of rules and regulations that were put in place that were put in place to help those poorer than themselves.