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Originally Posted by Chango
And why does everyone always bring up reparations at these topics? That has nothing to do with this at all.
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Then please explain what affirmative action is all about, Chango.[/quote:94e5e]
Oh, it's you.
Affirmative Action was started during the civil rights movement to prevent anyone from being discriminated against or denied benefits based on race, color or origin from any activity or program or job that recieves government funding. This was expanded to include women and religion. And it was left up to the activities or programs or jobs to decide how to accomplish this.
That is what affirmative action is about, while the idea of reparations is to have the government make up for it's support of slavery and the treatment of former slaves after the civil war (eg. jim crow laws, false promise of land, etc...)
I guess you could argue that both are because of the post-civil war treatment of former slaves, but thats about all of the connection that you could get.
What's your explanation of affirmative action and how it relates to reparations? And please don't just say "it's these lazy scumbag "colors" whining about how they can't get a job" like i'm sure you're tempted to do.