Affirmative Action Gone wrong

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:


No...not the Mindy Kahling case.... But,...This kid comes from Nigeria - and no descendant of slaves - and both the parents are educated professsionals. No doubt that this guy is good....but had it been a white or an Indian kid, he would not be on the front page.

Same kinc od affirmatie "scheming" goes on among the "hispanics" and other "African Americans". Instead of helping the descendants of the slaves and those native americans/true hispanics, the recent african immigrants and well to do mexicans, South Americans - The white spanish descendants from Peru/brazil/Columbia/Argentina abusing the affirmative action plan from admission and jobs to promotions and other Govt programs.
.Being a liberal and/or a democrat implies forgetting the original objective and goals and accept the abuse and misuse.

Going by all these, I am slowly becoming a Republican..

Ekeh was born in Nigeria and came to the United States when he was eight. He wrote his main college essay about the struggle to adjust, including being clueless in U.S. history classes at school. He said he would ask his parents repeatedly why they moved.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As he courts Republicans across the country, Jeb Bush boasts that an executive order he signed that ended race-based college admissions in Florida upheld conservative principles while helping minorities.

“We ended up having a system where there were more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system than prior to the system that was discriminatory,” the former governor and likely presidential contender said recently at a conference of conservative activists.

But at Florida’s two premier universities, black enrollment is shrinking. At the University of Florida in Gainesville and at Florida State University in Tallahassee, administrators say they worry that the trend risks diminishing their standing as world-class universities and hurts the college experience.

The black share of the UF freshman class, for instance, plunged to 6 percent in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available. That’s down from 9 percent in 2011.

On campus, this year’s Black History Month concert was canceled, a multicultural talent show might go away and an annual step show is losing sponsors because of low attendance.

“If we don’t address this in the next two or three years, I think we’re going to have a problem,” said Brandon Bowden, assistant vice president for student affairs at Florida State, which had a 15 percent drop in the number of black freshmen enrolled between 2000 and 2009.

Bush, who is expected to announce a presidential campaign this spring, is the only governor who has signed an order ending affirmative action.

Hellsangel wrote:On that note, Comrade, why don't you advocate that the IITs in India mandate a quota of 15% for Muslim students?

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:On that note, Comrade, why don't you advocate that the IITs in India mandate a quota of 15% for Muslim students?

How is this relevant to the discussion at hand? BTW, India has always been biased against Muslims, they're never treated on par with other citizens of India.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:


No...not the Mindy Kahling case.... But,...This kid comes from Nigeria - and no descendant of slaves - and both the parents are educated professsionals. No doubt that this guy is good....but had it been a white or an Indian kid, he would not be on the front page.

Same kinc od affirmatie "scheming" goes on among the "hispanics" and other "African Americans". Instead of helping the descendants of the slaves and those native americans/true hispanics, the recent african immigrants and well to do mexicans, South Americans - The white spanish descendants from Peru/brazil/Columbia/Argentina abusing the affirmative action plan from admission and jobs to promotions and other Govt programs.
.Being a liberal and/or a democrat implies forgetting the original objective and goals and accept the abuse and misuse.

Going by all these, I am slowly becoming a Republican..