>>>>>>Our newspapers and TV's introduced Obama's elect as end of racism at USA. Is it just a wish?
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>>>>>I would not call it an end of racism. I do think it shows we have come quite a ways, though.
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>>>>I agree. The racism will stop with the end of affirmative action.
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>>>Unlikely. I'm not a big fan either, but if you think racism doesn't transcend affirmative action, you're dreaming.
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>>I think it's the other way around. You'll know the racism is gone when everybody agrees there's no need for affirmative action. IOW, when the negative action vanishes, so can the affirmative.
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>No. When everybody agrees there's no need for affirmative action, and that agreement is not racially motivated, then maybe. But since a lot of racists hate the idea of affirmative action (not everybody who doesn't like it is racist, but some are), simple agreement that it's not needed is certainly not good enough.
There is a lot of racism implicit in the assumptions on which race-based affirmative action is based and on the paternalism some of the well-meaning folks who often defend it the most vehemently. Affirmative action is a very good idea. Race-based affirmative action is racist.
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