Nothing makes the blood boil quite like slogging your guts out just to be passed over thanks to some rich arsewipe or a half-witted bureaucrat who want to grant favours to relatives or friends. It goes without saying that with Australia about to go to a federal election in just over a month that, if Labor gets in, the favours that will be granted to the union bosses (more bludgers!) will make your head spin.
As a sidebar - Just in case anyone confuses me for a Liberal Party supporter: it is more a case of being a hater of the Labor party rather than a supporter of anyone else. The Labor Party, by and large, exist PURELY to create jobs for the boys and to enact a policy of "Do as I say, not as I do!" This has been proven time and again by every Labor government in this country for far too many years.
Anyway - back to the topic of giving Black Americans* extra favours based simply on their skin colour....
[* = they are "BLACK Americans" - NOT "African Americans" - NOT unless they were born IN Africa and became citizens and then emigrated to the USA! Actually - they're just plain old "Americans" - just like everyone else that is a citizen of the country. How about everyone stop trying to make themselves into a down-trodden minority and looking for ways to get special treatment from everyone else?]
State Bar of California, Civil Rights Group Spar Over Affirmative Action
Monday, October 15, 2007
By William LaJeunesse
Does affirmative action work? An explosive study that suggests it does not is pitting the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights against the State Bar of California in a battle over admissions data that could determine once and for all if racial preferences help or hurt minority students.
"Currently only about one in three African-Americans who goes to an American law school passes the bar on the first attempt and a majority never become lawyers at all," says UCLA law professor Richard Sander.
In an article published in the Stanford Law Review, Sander and his research team concluded several thousand would-be black lawyers either dropped out of law school or failed to pass the bar because of affirmative action.
Known as the ‘mismatch’ effect, Sander claims students who are unprepared and whose academic credentials are below the median are admitted to law schools they are unqualified to attend. If those same students instead were to go to less elite or competitive schools, more would graduate, pass the bar and become lawyers.
So if I understand correctly what is being said: They're saying that if you lower the standards to get onto the difficult & challenging career paths for certain people then more of those people are going to fail because they can't handle the difficult & challenging part. GENIUS!
Hey, while we're at it - let's get that minority of dwarves (all 7 of them, even) into the NBL. I mean, they won't make it on their own merits, so let's just put them there anyway so that they can prove that they can do the job.
What's that? They can't do the job? You racist! What did the pudgy, short-arse, singing dwarf population do to you that you have to be elitist and want to exclude them from opportunities that everyone else can have? Oooohhh... that's right - they're not being excluded because of some pre-conceived BULLSHIT notion that it's their skin colour or fatness or singing - it's because the little shits are NOT UP TO THE JOB!!
Similarly -- if a member of a minority is being excluded, in todays world, from embarking on a particular career path - chances are that it's because THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO DO THE JOB!!
Do we send skinny Asian girls out on road games to swing sledge-hammers or drive heavy machinary? NO! It's not because they're Asian - it's because they aren't physically able to do the work (ignoring the fact that most cannot drive to save their lives anyway - and that IS because they're Asian! Go on... prove me wrong...)
Lowering the standards for black Americans to get into law only panders to the notion that the standards have to be lower because we white folk think they're dumb - and THAT is truly insulting.
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