Anyone still believe in the merit of Affirmative Action?

There are two other sources if you look.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1523100.stm

 

C'mon Lottery, those sources are silly, as is that quote.
And you want a specific name of someone who has been harmed by the practice of A-A? Well, I haven't researched for specific names, but I'll give you one.
By the U. of Michigan's own numbers, had the Plaintiff in the law school case, a single white mother, been African-american, she would have been admitted into the law school.
There you go, you have a specific individual.
By definition, a program that is devised to exclude merit and need at the expense of strictly race, which you seem to be promoting, is going to negatively effect specific individuals who are not members of the favored race in the program.
I'm more concerned with looking at what an individual has done in his or her 18+ years, what obstacles they have overcome, what benefits they did not receive compared to others, what hardships they endured instead of what happened to great-great-great-great-great grandparents over centuries ago.

 

antislavery.com

 

I think antislavery is a pretty safe source. So if we take their estimates of people dying durring the journey to the new world at a rate of 16.5%. There would have to be... 1.21 BILLION slaves taken to the new world from Africa.

Wow great sources there LOTTERY. :dis: :dis: :dis:

 

For the final time, I am talking about the number killed throughout the entire slavery period, not just the one's killed while shipped. To me, your sources are silly.

 

Almost every school does this in the name of diversity. I have a friend who got into Stanford because his family was of Cajun French heritage. Another person I went to college with is on a minority scholarship to Southern. It works both ways.

By the way can anyone name the school that was rated by Newsweek as the most diverse campus in the nation???

 

You are the one who quoted the source. If you don't agree with it why quote it?

You're right the BBC and an organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of African decendents are both very silly.

 

This has been an interesting discussion. I disagree with many of you but thats why there is a need to discuss these types of issues. I learned alot from this thread.

 

I'm not conceding that your sources have any basis in fact but even if everything you say is 100% true the fact is that nobody who was ever a slave is still alive and very few children of slaves are still alive. If there were still any living former slaves I would agree that they are due some form of compensation but it is rediculous to favor the great great grandchildren of slaves over anybody else.