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Kamala Harris Is The Case Against Affirmative Action

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Posted by Fred 2021-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 not really since Harris's boss is also unqualified

a better case is the Chief Counsel at Coke who talked the CEO and board into various woke policies and internal practices that were actually illegal.

This guy has a contract now where he is a no work consultant to Coke getting many hundreds of thousands of $$ for the next two years.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-07-02 00:47|| 2021-07-02 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Bill Clinton DEFENDS his 'extraordinary' former chief of staff Tina Flournoy over claims she has created a 'blame culture' in Kamala Harris's 'abusive' office and staff are 'treated like s***'

Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-02 00:50|| 2021-07-02 00:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
~ Bertrand Russell

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 09:17|| 2021-07-02 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 ...are precisely what we’re seeing in the shockingly poor job performance of Kámala Harris

Shocking to some, anyway.

Posted by Raj 2021-07-02 09:29|| 2021-07-02 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 And she's one feeble heartbeat away from the launch codes.

Posted by Matt 2021-07-02 11:39|| 2021-07-02 11:39|| Front Page Top

#6 But I was told she had a good head.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-02 12:00|| 2021-07-02 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Example for positive outcome of affirmative action?

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2021-07-02 15:01|| 2021-07-02 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Example for positive outcome of affirmative action?

A whole lot of people have made a good living off the Affirmative Action grift, but I suspect that is not what you mean.

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-02 17:00|| 2021-07-02 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey..guess who's excited about the price of hot dogs going down?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-02 18:42|| 2021-07-02 18:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Example for positive outcome of affirmative action?

In all seriousness, the attraction of affirmative action when it was first introduced was the thought that many deserving by acts with no longer be held back.

In practical terms, this meant that America would jumpstart the creation of a black professional class that would have full access to the institutions and power centers of American society. For about 10 or maybe at most 20% of black American society, this wish was fulfilled.

Hence the Dr. Phil Huxtable / Cosby Show phenom. In The best American tradition, motivated I achieving and deserving blacks sees the opportunity, entered the professions, and realized the American Dream.

How many? Probably as many as 30% of the black US population, maybe only 20%, but in any case, in absolute numbers least 5 million black American households and at least 10 million black Americans took a vantage of this opportunity and did what we all hoped they would do.

Five million households is an enormous number. That's like a small country. That's success.

BUT....

... an equal number of black Americans -- probably twice as many - slid further and further into dysfunction, poverty, violence, and despair. You all know that story. It's a horror story. Unbelievable really, for any advanced civilization.

Worst of all, the idea of merit as a criterion for advancement was degraded. And entire generation of poor blacks became professional victims. With all the attendant dysfunctional behaviors the professional victims are wont to display.

I'll leave it up to you as to whether the experiment was, on balance, a success.

Posted by Caesar Noodleman1707 2021-07-02 18:56|| 2021-07-02 18:56|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ I'll leave it up to you as to whether the experiment was, on balance, a success.

If it were left up to me, it would all be over early tomorrow morning.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 20:28|| 2021-07-02 20:28|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 America would jumpstart the creation of a black professional class that would have full access to the institutions and power centers of American society

Yupp. Mission accomplished.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-07-02 23:13|| 2021-07-02 23:13|| Front Page Top

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