Eva Said:

I have a question for anti-Affirmative Action advocates?

We Answered:

You are quite right. These people who come on Yahoo Answers and protest about "underachievers" who get in before them and "women and Jews" who don't get affirmative action...obviously didn't do their research.

Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell both got affirmative action. Were these two underachievers? No. White women, black women / men, Spanish men / women, Native Americans, Indians and others all get affirmative action. Jews might not get it because the holocaust in Europe is not a reason for them to get affirmative action over here. People hate them, but roadblocks aren't put in their way to prevent them from getting ahead.

Blacks faced racism, discrimination, oppression and murder in America...even recently. Women face sexism and exclusion in America...even recently. Hispanics face racism, discrimination, oppression and murder in America...even recently. Jews are the head media corporations, CEOs, mayors, lawyers, etc. I mean the top in their fields. They DO NOT need affirmative action. That's the difference between a minority that needs help and one that doesn't. Schools of most black / Hispanic / Indian and other minorities receive unequal funding, their neighborhoods have less police presence until the gangs begin fighting to name the street then the cops come in with riot gear. The same thing with the poor areas.

We know all this. We see it in the movies and on TV. That's why the show "Everyone Hates Chris" is so popular, because everyone knows the blantant / hidden racism it shows is true...even in today's world. Stop lying to yourselves and claiming racism is over. Obama is the first minority president out of FORTY-FOUR. Even Greece (a white nation) had a black woman leader before us...a nation that claimed that every race had equal chances of achieving their dreams.

Also, tell these people to name one underachiever that they know of who got into a top school ahead of a straight A student. I can name one rich underachieving white kid who attended a top school in place of a good student based on money and what the school could get from his father. His name is George W. Bush and he was in Yale with a
"C-" average. Can they justify how he remained there when other people with higher grades than him couldn't even enter?

Rebecca Said:

Down with Affirmative Action?

We Answered:

You don't even want to know the number of minority fireman and policeman who were accepted over someone more qualified, turned down for being white.