Family Politics: Uncle Jethro

[acepenguinlive]

Affirmative Action is kind of like your awkward Uncle Jethro, the one who lives a few blocks from your house, but you really only see at Thanksgiving. Grandma wants him to leave, says he's not the son she remembers. You're getting annoyed with his hugs and crazy stories, but dinner hasn't been served yet, and who's going to tell him to go? No one

Comments

[lapsarian]

You are fabulous :)

[acepenguinlive]

likewise

[free_kobe1]

What are you talking about? We don't have an Uncle Jethro

[acepenguinlive]

he's kind of like uncle andy

[pumpkin9]

For con law class on Thursday we went to go see Julian Bond (civil rights activist) speak at the law school. Our professor thought it was going to be about the history of the civil rights movement because it was part of the "Celebrate voting!" 3 day speaker series, but she was wrong. It was just him ranting and raving out the government, "the man" (president bush and white wealthy republicans according to him), how tax cuts to the wealthy were wrong, and how we still needed affirmative action. When they gave time for questions at the end I got up in front of a zillion people and asked him why race-based affirmative action was still necessary even when it only benefits blacks and latinos and ignores other minorities such as asians and those of middle eastern descent and it has been proven by studies that socioeconomic status is a better indicator to base affirmative action off of. he didn't give me a straight answer.

[acepenguinlive]

i just wish people would call it what it is. i may still be in support of it after that. california is using a socioeconomic model and, not surprisingly, the numbe of admitted african americans dropped some rediculous amount. the point is that racism is still inherent in the system, but i doubt more racism with fix that, in the long-run.