Affirmative Action is a necessary responsibility

Affirmative action puts an unfair burden on employers, who should be able to hire any damn body they want to. It's the American Way. Like health insurance. We hate our emloyers and foist all our social problems on them as if it were their duty to make everything right and make a profit at the same time. Every stupid problem we expect our employers to take care of hampers their ability to compete. sends more of our jobs to Indonesia, and unless this law is the first one to be completely fairly enforced, unfair. The law now punished any employer who, at any time, does not have racial balance by defining that situation as racial prejudice. I go to yard sales and estate sales frequently and I have seldom if ever seen a person of color there, yet that does not mean the estate sale is discriminatory. If the yard sale attendees were employees they would get a six-figure fine per day. If the law said that the sky were green that would be the same thing. It isn't and saying it is green does not make it green. In any population there are variations over time and culture, and a business can be fined humdreds of thousands of dollars per day for not having racial diversity. It is impossible to maintain diversity at all times. This law is unfair, unjust and wrong. Executive Order 10925 is generally credited with the first Affirmative Action program but as you can see it seeks "equal opportunity for all qualified persons, without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin, employed or seeking employment with the Federal Government and on government contracts." Well Affirmative Action is obviously not equal so it violates EO 10925. It is an attempt to adderess one inequality by creating another. What about the "Affirmative Action" already present in our criminal injustice system? A person of color is much more likely to go to prison in the first place and gets nine times the sentence of a white person for the same offense. How about some "equal opportunity" there? How about racial diversiry: More white people in our prisons? Should white people be arrested more frequently and given nine times longer sentences too? If you really want to address the problem then why not address it? Equality means equality. Not just in housing, education and employment, but throughout the system. Equality in education means not only diversity but tolerance. This is about how the students and teachers behave, not what they learn. The giving of racial preference is guarenteed to produce more racial friction as racial groups vie for the advantage it confers. This is happening. Real and perceived injustice is inevitable, and when it is not addressed is not only injustice. It multiplies. It is easily preventable civil unrest waiting to happen. Affirmative action, the giving of preferences, often results in the very dangerous practice of hiring or accepting unqualified employees and students. This is especially destructive in the educational system, where most college students do not graduate anyway. Requiring educational systems to accept inferior students hurts us all by giving us mediocre education. You now have mediocre doctor and dentist who took the place of that good doctor who is now pumping gas and selling insurance. It is a great disservice to give a person an inferior education in the first place. Why don't colleges cancel classes and just have sports? We'll save that for another debate. Village schooling is the answer to our educational problems anyway. Again another debate. With our present educational system, is it fair to admit minorities preferentially anyway to get a crappy education while white students are home schooled anyway? Poor people aren't able to home school. Well now hold on now maybe it's not such a bad idea anyway if I can play second base for the Diamondbacks. I was disadvantaged by, I'm sure I qualify somehow. I could get the whole family in if I worked it right. Hey wait, that's not fair. The umpire is calling all strikes from The Pitcher From Hell just because he is from Hell. And all the sections are assigned by Disadvantaged Status, a combination of irrelevant factors if you can just realize that a person is a person.