Ah, the old
claim efforts to combat racism are more racist than racism routine.
Pass.
That wasn't a denial.
Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. Affirmative action does not maintain this. It maintains that it is a remedy to the legacy of racism.
It's not complicated.
But it reinforces and perpetuates racism.
It's not complicated.
As soon as people find out there's an Affirmative Action baby around, tensions start rising.
Again we see the progressive left ideologues unwilling to defend the dubious laws, rules, and regulations they support that increasingly pose an existential threat to the values and principles that helped make America a great country. Sad.
This is my experience with Affirmative Action.
The Army wanted to hire a civilian police force to provide law enforcement and security on Army bases in the US, in order to free up Military Police units to perform their combat mission.
A pilot program was initiated at Fort Monroe, VA and my boss put me in charge of it. I advertised per EEOC and federal regulations the date, time and place of the test 90 days in advance of the test.
The five highest test scorers were selected, with the highest scorer going to be the "police chief" and the next four highest would ultimately become patrol supervisors. They would be trained and then additional persons hired later.
Two months into the training, the EEOC reared its ugly head and said you can't have a White guy supervising four other White guys.
I had to get the demographic data from the testing company, where I found out no women had taken the test, and none of the Black men passed it, which doesn't say much, since a whole lotta White guys failed it, too.
After a heated debate, it was decided to hire the highest scoring Black man who failed the test. The "police chief" was demoted to patrol supervisor, and the lowest scoring patrol supervisor was terminated.
When the White guy found out he had been demoted in favor of a someone who didn't even pass the test, he quit.
When the Black guy found out he was the police chief only because he was Black, he quit.
The other 3 guys realized they were about to play a serious head game that they could never win, so they all quit.
Now we have no one. At the suggestion of the EEOC, I expanded the test sites. 3 in Virginia, and one each in North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland and Delaware. Testing was advertised for 90 days in advance. This time, I went ahead and got the demographic data from the testing company.
None of the women passed the test, and the sole Black guy who did was at the bottom. After a discussion with my bosses, we decided to scrap the whole freaking program, and it only cost tax-payers a little over $700,000 down the drain.