2012-05-14, 03:21 PM
The Great One Wrote:haha yea no, not even close the only thing your trying to refer to is affirmative action. You know that thing you all had way before it was given that name pre civil rights act. Please go take a trip to an inner city then go to the suburbs of that same city and tell me if it's equal. You live in Baltimore right? Should be real easy.
I think you're unclear on terms.
Prior to then it would've been called 'preferential treatment'.
"Affirmative action" is just a nice way of making 'preferential treatment' sound like a positive thing for anyone but the person getting preference.
You'll have to explain for me how the living conditions between the inner city and suburbs have anything to do with affirmative action though. You may have no control over where you start in your life but you sure as hell have some degree of control over the destination.
My family wanted out of government housing, so we worked our asses off to better ourselves and get ahead. Nobody came along and gave us a better place to live, gave us better jobs, gave us opportunities. We made them for ourselves and fought long and hard to get better.
What's stopping anyone else in that condition from doing the exact same? Blaming your failings on others is just pardoning your own failings when you should be trying harder.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.