If you follow the news, particularly msn, then you have seen the headlines on the latest ruling of the surpeme court on the firefighters in New Haven. Click here for the latest article.
On my family board, We are discussing this as well. My brother states: "This is racism directly caused by anti racism policy and law." How can it be that anti-racism policy/law is actually causing racism? Simple. When one is required to hire/promotte/accept/etc... any particular race, it is racism. When New Haven failed to promote those with the best test scores because they were worried about a lawsuit from another race - that is reverse racism.
My sister-in-law also mentioned that schools and colleges are required to accept a certain number of non-white applications. This is Reverse Racism.
The laws that were put in place, many years ago, to ensure equal rights to all races were essential in the development of our country and the breaking down of racist barriers. But now those laws work more towards ensuring racism then what new Haven wanted in the first place. I side with the white firefighters in this case because they were unjustly denied promotions when they 'earned' it by doing the best on the tests. However, I also side with New Haven out of pity. They were clearly in a no-win situation and it got ugly. Truth-be-told, I believe they would have promoted those that did well if it werent for the anti-racism laws that scared them with the prospect of facing a racism lawsuit.
Clearly, America (and the world) needs to become 'race-free'. We are all one people all working towards similar goals. It is no longer essential to enforce racism laws as it was so many years ago. Today, we need to see people for who they are, what they are, what they can do - not for what color or race they are.
With the death of Michael Jackson, his #1 hit Black and White comes to mind (watch it here on youtube.). Clearly - it doesn't matter if we are black or white or asian or russion, we just need to be all together one.
10 years ago
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Compleatly agree.
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