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>If you read my post, you know that I am not a fan of quota systems.
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>>Sure there have been problems in the past, but those don't exist today. It is long since past the time for any organizations that use public funds that cater to only one sex or race.
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>The past is still here, John. I am seriously surprised that you feel that North American society has truly reached a stage where, without any support groups fighting for it, a black will be treated the same as a white, or a woman the same as a man - ie - without any conscious or subconscious discrimination. I don't know what things are like in your particular neck of the woods, but it must be far advanced over most of the rest of North America if that is really the case.

Or, it may be that 60% of the Memphis population is black, so they are in control of much of the government. We have a black city and county mayor and several of the councilmen and commissioners also. I'd say they feel good about where they are. Even so, there are still quotas in place here. Whites should now be considered a minority.