Applying Affirmative Action

gopher

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No correction required or warranted, gopher.

As soon as you learn to stick to facts you will see the folly of your statement.

Oh, of course.

JeffCohen.org Media Beat Clarence Thomas: Affirmative Action Success Story

Clarence Thomas: Affirmative Action Success Story

There is something unseemly about a guy who has just built a house on the beach and is now leading the charge to stop all further beach-front construction.
Or a recent immigrant who climbs the soapbox to call for a halt to further immigration.
Or a beneficiary of affirmative action programs who climbs the ladder of success by attacking affirmative action.
That kind of unseemliness was demonstrated this month by Justice Clarence Thomas. But few reporters took note -- even though it should be the media's job to spotlight hypocrisy.
Thomas cast the deciding vote in the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision to narrow federal affirmative action programs. But Thomas went beyond even fellow conservatives on the bench -- he argued for an immediate end to affirmative action.
There's an obvious contradiction here: Clarence Thomas benefited enormously from the kind of affirmative action programs he now seeks to kill.
Indeed, Thomas' rise from his dirt-poor upbringing in rural Georgia into an elite Ivy League law school is an affirmative action success story. But don't take our word for it. Take his.
In a November 1983 speech to his staff at the federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, Thomas called affirmative action ''critical to minorities and women in this society.''
Then, his remarks got personal: ''But for them (affirmative action laws), God only knows where I would be today. These laws and their proper application are all that stand between the first 17 years of my life and the second 17 years.''
As an undergraduate at Holy Cross College, Thomas received a scholarship set aside for racial minorities. He was admitted to Yale Law School in 1971 as part of an aggressive (and successful) affirmative action program with a clear goal: 10 percent minority enrollment. Yale offered him generous financial aid.
Affirmative action can't guarantee success, but it can open doors previously closed to women and people of color. The rest is up to those who walk through the doors.
By all accounts, Thomas was a hard worker who studied long hours. But his place at Yale Law School -- his key to later success -- was opened by a race-conscious admissions program, the kind he is now intent on outlawing.
After this month's Supreme Court decision, few news outlets explored the sharp contrast between Clarence Thomas' obsession with destroying affirmative action and his own personal history.
One wonders what Thomas believes about his past. Maybe he prefers the fairy-tale account provided by Rush Limbaugh, whose talk show he listens to each day: ''Clarence Thomas escaped the bonds of poverty by methods other than those prescribed by these civil rights organizations.''
The truth is that Thomas owes thanks to the civil rights movement -- whose decades of lawsuits, protests and lobbying removed barriers for individuals like Thomas. Yet he seems to relish his role as one of the movement's main enemies.
Since the early 1980s, Thomas' career soared thanks to a perverse form of racial preference. It was his race, as Thomas has admitted, that got him two civil rights posts in the Reagan White House; the jobs came because he opposed the civil rights movement. So did his boss, President Ronald Reagan, whose opposition dated back to the years of Martin Luther King Jr.
President Bush -- who, like Reagan, had opposed the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act -- later chose Thomas to fill the Supreme Court seat of civil rights legend Thurgood Marshall, the only other African-American to sit on the highest court.
In his recent Supreme Court opinion blasting affirmative action, Thomas could find no moral difference between ''laws designed to subjugate a race'' and laws that benefit a race ''in order to foster some current notion of equality.''
Thomas went on to complain that affirmative action programs stigmatize the beneficiaries -- an argument not raised by the plaintiff in the case, a white building contractor who says he unfairly lost federal work to a Latino-owned business.
Responding to Thomas, Justice John Paul Stevens pointed out that if beneficiaries of affirmative action feel stigmatized, they can simply ''opt out of the program.''
It's worth considering. If Thomas feels traumatized or stigmatized for having benefited from affirmative action, he could give back his law diploma.
Such a move would be absurd -- since Thomas earned his degree by studying hard and passing all required exams.
Even more absurd, though, is Thomas' current mania for closing doors to others that the civil rights movement helped open for him.







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taxslave

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The folly of affirmative action is best illustrated by Barack Hussain 0bama.

Has nothing to do with affirmative action. Has everything to do with merit. As in the democrats have merit while the Republicans have? Oh yea Sarah Palin, junior bush and WMDs in the bedrooms of everyone they don't like today.

What the dude in the vid is talking about has nothing to do with affirmative action and everything to do being PC. Basket ball players are picked on merit not race or religion.
I'm willing to concede that the Cannots should perhaps become PC and hire a few black hockey players because their merit based white ones suck.
 

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Minnesota Gophers all white mens hockey team:




Gophers womens hockey team:







WE MUST APPLY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TO THESE RACIALLY SEGREGATED TEAMS AT ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

YukonJack

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As I was saying, gopher, stuff or should I say fluff from flakes like Jeff Cohen is only quoted and respected by goofballs.

Justice Clarence Thomas has more dignity, knowledge and integrity under the nail of his pinky than the no hope and only small change impostor in the White House ever could hope to have.
 

YukonJack

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Especially in his pornography inspired wet dreams.

Obviously you are a person who subscribes to the old liberal credo that any person of African-American persuation who is NOT a liberal tit-sucking latter day slave is a worthless Uncle Tom.

So, you believe all the crap about Justice Clarence Thomas and forgive everything about you idol, the half black Barack Hussain 0bama.

Figures. And I have true and honest pity for you and your kind.
 

taxslave

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Obviously you are a person who subscribes to the old liberal credo that any person of African-American persuation who is NOT a liberal tit-sucking latter day slave is a worthless Uncle Tom.

So, you believe all the crap about Justice Clarence Thomas and forgive everything about you idol, the half black Barack Hussain 0bama.

Figures. And I have true and honest pity for you and your kind.

Thats OK jack, we pity you and all the other racist bigots of all colors and cults.
 

Kreskin

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All those destitute white people who can't afford a pair of shorts, running shoes and a ball to throw do need affirmative action.
 

YukonJack

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I'm not on the left. Just not a racist like you.

Worth repeating: When idiots have nothing left to contribute to the conversation, they, inevitably, resort to name-calling.

Question, moderators: Is being called a racist and a bigot as bad, better or worse than being called stupid?

Is it, or should be reason to be banned?
 

taxslave

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Worth repeating: When idiots have nothing left to contribute to the conversation, they, inevitably, resort to name-calling.

Question, moderators: Is being called a racist and a bigot as bad, better or worse than being called stupid?

Is it, or should be reason to be banned?

If the shoe fits, wear it.
 

YukonJack

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If the shoe fits, wear it.

And when name-calling does not work find the most mediocre and stupid common expression.

Back to the topic:

taxslave, apply for affirmative action assistance. You are sure to get it. It will be displayed on the rear view mirror of your car and will allow you to park everywhere.
 

TenPenny

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Has nothing to do with affirmative action. Has everything to do with merit. As in the democrats have merit while the Republicans have? Oh yea Sarah Palin, junior bush and WMDs in the bedrooms of everyone they don't like today.

What the dude in the vid is talking about has nothing to do with affirmative action and everything to do being PC. Basket ball players are picked on merit not race or religion.
I'm willing to concede that the Cannots should perhaps become PC and hire a few black hockey players because their merit based white ones suck.

They at least could do with a few more Canadians. Worked for Boston.
 

gerryh

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As I was saying, gopher, stuff or should I say fluff from flakes like Jeff Cohen is only quoted and respected by goofballs.

Justice Clarence Thomas has more dignity, knowledge and integrity under the nail of his pinky than the no hope and only small change impostor in the White House ever could hope to have.


Oh ya, Thomas is a saint alright.:lol::roll:

Former girlfriend says Clarence Thomas was a binge drinker, porn user - CNN

Worth repeating: When idiots have nothing left to contribute to the conversation, they, inevitably, resort to name-calling.

Question, moderators: Is being called a racist and a bigot as bad, better or worse than being called stupid?

Is it, or should be reason to be banned?


You can add hypocrite to racist and bigoted.