A bipartisan group of congress announced today they will be introducing legislation to end all affirmative action for white men by January 1, 2009. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said “After 250 years of both government and private sector affirmative action for white men, we believe the time has finally come to tell this group that they must stand on their own. “
This legislation is seen by some congress effort to quell the growing resentment from constituents who have become frustrated that white men cannot seem to get their shit together. For many in the country the proposed 700 billion dollar Wall Street bail out was the final straw. Ms Cora Lee Jones-Smith, President of the Malcolm X Public Housing Tenant Association in Dayton Ohio expressed the country’s frustration when she said: “We have given them the Presidency 44 straight times, we have given them access to the best schools for 200 years, when they ran the Savings and Loan Industry in the ground in the 80’s we bailed them out and once again they get in trouble and they run back to us for another 700 billion dollars. It is time to say to these people get real jobs and get off of the government tab and start taking care of themselves. “
The citizen group “BAIL OUT MY ASS” announced yesterday that over a million citizens signed their online petition asking congress to reject giving white men another 700 billion dollars. Said Joe Santiago the group’s spokesman “Enough is enough. They are even talking about giving foreign white men our money in this bail out. If blacks can endure slavery and within a generation of the ending of Jim Crow elect a president, and If Hispanics can literally walk to this country and immediately began prospering, white men after 200 hundred years of affirmative action ought to be able to clean up their own mess. “
However, Presidential Candidate John McCain said “It would be premature at this point to end affirmative action for white men. We still don’t have enough billionaires and you know by 2050 the country will be majority brown and we need affirmative action for white men to stay in place at least to then”
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Congress To End Affirmative Action For White Men
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Hi Larry,
My name is Tia and I'm an editor at OpposingViews.com, the debate website. Since we both cover race issues, I thought I'd drop you a note. I would've e-mailed you but I couldn't find an address.
See, we're currently having a discussion about whether or not we still need affirmative action. You can see it here:
http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/do-we-still-need-affirmative-action
Although vetted experts are the ones doing the debating, anyone can contribute by choosing a side and posting comments about the experts' arguments.
Check it out and, if you have the time, let me know what you think at tia@opposingviews.com
Thanks!
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