Attempted equality leads to inequality...?

No. What was once a common thought has been degenerated into....reverse discrimination for lack of a better term. Affirmative Action is accomplishing just the opposite of what it was intended to do. Like so many other "feel good but do nothing positive" liberal appeasement ideas and "laws".

Like over correcting a car, you get scared and jerk it, then shoot wildly out of control and crash into those just cruising peacefully around you.

People see this and aim for that reaction.

If everyone forgot about all this it would go away.

If everyone did what they were supposed to be doin, then they wouldnt be doin wrong no more.

No more feeling sorry for anyone regardless of color.

This is the modern age... any kid in blue jeans with the internet has more power today than alot of high society of 100 years ago.

The excuse of racism isnt valid anymore.

Who cares...

it exists,

Get over it,

If you dont react or give any valid response to a person using racial slurs, then it loses its power, and eventually stops being used. However, The next person might blow their cool when slurred. Its a group effort to leave it behind.

No one alive today has been a slave in action in america.

Just cause your grandparents may have saw it doesnt mean ANYONE owes ANYONE anything... your grandpa and you are two diff people with diff debts...

Will we ever enter a state of mind?

Nah.. we cant enter a state of mind that overcomes this knowingly, Now if we forget what our goal was with having that mindset, we forget our problem to overcome, and thus everyone becomes equal again.

easier said than done

one person at a time

I prefer to leave the Europeans out of this one. Unless of course, you invite the Muslim youth of Paris to come here and riot anually as they do there. All for the sake of feeling unempowered and without hope or future.

In answer to your question, we already have laws in place that guarentee each child be "given" an education. People are as free as their pocket books allow to move to the so-called better school districts.

We also have a police force, local, municiple, state, and federal to enforce the laws of the land. Unfortunately, we have various special interest groups that have paid well to steal your elected representative's ear from you and me. They've lobbied for and gotten laws passed that make a "Hate Crime" some how worse than a random act of violence. Violence is violence and to subjectively measure the malice behind each act should be unconscienable. It is not viewed as such.

I can tell you from personal experience that the majority of the problems in education is actually based on parenting or better, the lack there of. When I was in California, my kids attended a public school and were by far the minority. Gang violence and drugs were rampent in the elementary school. The school's dress code was deemed unenforcable. We moved our kids to a school (governed by the same school administration, taught by the same pool of teachers and funded by the same school district) onto the local military base. The difference was absolutely amazing. Students actually studied and learned. Teachers were able to teach and not act as prison guards. And the difference was purely that the majority of the kids in the latter school were all military brats. Their parents all believed in the same basic core values and passed those values on to their children.

You will find, if you think about it, that anytime you try and "level the playing field" by stripping priviledge from one group and giving it to another, you cause more harm than good. Someone always loses, usually both groups lose. It's a form of communism. It undermines the entire capitalist system of striving to do better. Why work so hard if the government is just going to take it away from you and give it to those who don't work nearly as hard? Social programs are essentially, reconstituted slavery. Welfare, being a prime example. It strips you of your dignity and your will to succeed. You become complacent and then reliant on others to take care of your basic needs. It takes away personal responsibility and ownership.

Well said.

I'm pretty far to the left and I think affirmative action is BS. Don't fight fire with fire.

To answer your question, not until we can get over people so damn politically correct about everything. Men get raped and domestically abused by women, for example.

We should start by listening to the Avenue Q song "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist." Funny song, but makes a great point.

I haft to disagree with you to a point, affirmative action has accomplished exactly what it was intended to do, dumb down America, to prove it just look at some of your answers here,

do you think those boys who came up with affirmative action and so many more rules and regulations , who have the best brain power in the nation made a mistake? hell no, it is part of their plan, a segment of America wants us to be so damned dumb we won't know the difference in us being in slavery and just normal,Americans were in first place in almost every scholastic area, this year we came in in 5th place in technology and 7th & 8th place in engineering, science, , math is not even competing,

we will be weakened enough soon and they will claim to be our saviors , enough said. surely Germany was a lesson ????

Logic and reason have NOTHING to do with the US government. They are stuck on the mindset that legislation and coercion will fix everything, when in fact it achieves the exact opposite effect almost every goddamn time. People can be amazingly stupid..

Well, I see nothing wrong with affirmative action.