If one would dare to envision how the abuse and violence done to We Black people, in particular, to the parallel abuse and violence done to this planet's geosphere and biosphere; then equate the eruptions of disorder in cities with the eruptions of the climactic, biologic, and geologic order by the change they are wreaking upon human settlements: then you'll understand how this is a systemic cultural issue that is being manifested before or eyes. It is calling for not just a change in the mechanics of this or that operation, but a change in the conceptions for these operations

 

@msman Are you serious about THIS???-"They are given free speech when a person of another race will be severely punished for saying the same words they say", IN PARTICULAR, when contrasted what happened in Michigan with armed demostrators spitting in the face of law officers. in contrast?
Let alone the grievance list you put out that needed CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS and LAWS to protect that supposed existence you resentfully see as "encouraged and blessed by the U.S"

 

Something of what would be an anomaly in places where 'black privilege' is resented
Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita

Burning down a police station scared the ruling class more than any electoral revolution ever has--or ever will. It's no accident that an inspiring, meaningful insurgency is happening in spaces devoid of congressional superstars.

 

About Face: Veterans Against the War
@VetsAboutFace

BREAKING: Veterans publish open letter to members of the Minnesota National Guard: Refuse orders & stand down for Black lives. #TroopsForBlackLives #CourageToResist #GIResistance #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #KentState #MinneapolisProtests

https://t.co/oj5aE27v4K?amp=1

 

https://t.co/NOL8UCZilT?amp=1

 

What false abuses?
Tell me Affirmative Action is fair.
Why should a person be given preference just because of their skin color.
Maybe it is true that they cannot compete on even terms.
msman,
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I won't be in a re-legislating debate on this, beyond this:

Suggested Citation:"11. Affirmative Action: Legislative History, Jhudicial Interpretations, Public Consensus." National Research Council. 2001. America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences: Volume I. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9599.
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11
Affirmative Action: Legislative History, Judicial Interpretations, Public Consensus

Carol M.Swain

Affirmative action is often considered to be a public-policy issue on which Whites and Blacks are hopelessly divided (Delgado, 1996; Hacker, 1992; Kinder and Sanders, 1996; Thernstrom and Thernstrom, 1997). Racial division and polarization, however, do not tell the whole story. Once we move beyond the ambiguity surrounding the term “affirmative action”—and the confusion concerning existing affirmative-action programs—a good deal of agreement is revealed among Whites, Blacks, and members of other racial and ethnic groups concerning many affirmative action-related issues. “Agreement” includes a shared unease about programs involving overt racial preferences coupled with a willingness to support outreach programs as well as programs that benefit the disadvantaged, and certain other types of affirmative-action initiatives. Identifying and building on this agreement and consensus is a necessary first step in the development of any successful race-related public policy in a multiracial society, such as our own.

DEFINING THE CONCEPT
In 1995, President Clinton appointed investigators to review federal policy on affirmative action. An important and telling finding the investigators reported was that affirmative action had no clear and widely understood definition, and that this contributed to an atmosphere of confusion and miscommunication about affirmative action’s goals and modes of implementation (Edley, 1996:15–24; see also Smelser, 1999). Neverthe-

It took the combination of the sympathy generated by Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963, the formidable legislative skills of President Lyndon B.Johnson, and the pleas and reassurances of Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota) to persuade Congress to pass a comprehensive Civil Rights bill.

Even before the concept of affirmative action was widely in use, opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights legislation argued that the lack of a definition of what constituted discrimination would lead to quotas in employment. Senator James Eastland (D-Mississippi) argued forcefully that the bill would discriminate against White people: “I know what will happen if there is a choice between hiring a White man or hiring a Negro, both having equal qualifications. I know who will get the job. It will not be the White man” (Swain, 1996:6). Largely because of such fears and predictions, the Civil Rights bill was amended explicitly to ban quotas in hiring.

When the bill eventually passed as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was comprehensive in its scope. In addition to its employment provisions, it banned discrimination in, for example, public accommodations, public conveyances, theaters, and restaurants; and it authorized the government to withhold federal funds from schools that had not desegregated in compliance with the 1954 Brown decision. In all, it contained 11 sections or titles. Title VI and Title VII are most important to the evolving connection between Civil Rights enforcement and affirmative action. Title VI covers discrimination in federally assisted programs, and Title VII covers employment discrimination in all large and medium-sized private businesses. Congress created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to monitor Title VII violations, but the original legislation gave the EEOC no power to enforce its dictates. A year later the Labor Department established the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC, subsequently reorganized and renamed the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, OFCCP), which was charged with regulating federal grants, loans, and contracts.

Both Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were instrumental in moving the country away from “soft” affirmative-action programs, that merely required employers and other private parties to make special efforts to recruit members of previously excluded groups, toward stronger policies mandating preferential treatment of women and minorities. Under these presidents, federal goals began to shift from equal opportunity as defined in the Civil Rights legislation to an emphasis on equal (or proportional) results.

On the specific issue of affirmative action for Blacks, Johnson set the stage for more aggressive, results-oriented policies. In a commencement address at Howard University, in June 1965, President Johnson introduced the powerful image of a shackled runner, which later influenced much of the debate concerning affirmative action:

You do not take a man who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race saying, “You are free to compete with all the others,” and still believe you have been fair. This is the next and more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom of opportunity, not just legal equity, but human ability; not just equality as a right and theory, but equality as a right and result (Johnson, 1965).

[Continued at-> https://www.nap.edu/read/9599/chapter/12 ]

 

I read that. thank you.
Still seemed to admit that blacks cannot compete with other races.
How long do you think it will take the black race until they can compete with other races?

 

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Half-sarcastically, but with a serious ring..
When they aren't carrying as an emotional reality the possibility of not only the legal and extra-legal killings, but dealing with the 'Karen non-911' reports that defame and slander their reputations in evaluations and other hiring (or firing, or suspension/expulsion, or educational tracking, etal.-decisions.)

 

Except for one thing. Whites are killed at a higher number than blacks by police.
Blacks commit more crimes than whites even though they are fewer in numbers.
Sort of blows your words out of the water.

 

UNARMED?
Not since Ruby Ridge have I heard of a killing as such..
[Considering that whites are numerically more-50% to 20%-highly likely that it would be so.. And who makes and enforces the laws-BLACKS????]

-Ball's back in your court

 

UNARMED? What are you asking?
Laws are made by both blacks and whites. One big difference is blacks commit the most crimes.

 

At this point, all I have to say is that if you SINCERELY believe what you're posting, I'm gonna have to SMH and say we just agree to disagree.
IF YOU'RE GIVING ME SOME EGO-TRIPPING, B.S.-RHETORIC for the sake of some cultural validation you want to have... Then HAVE IT, with the caveat of the KARMA I've witnessed doesn't like B.S.!

 

I'm not gonna interrupt that tiff, but seriously - the typical pompous, overwrought and superfluously inflated prose of the poster would seem to preclude such a grammatically incorrect title.

Daring to envision... not envisioning...

 

Ah, see?

There you are, right out in the open.

Hi.

 

Audio of this https://twitter.com/i/status/1266527996330024960

 

Link for the audio: https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/1266548945947250688

 

Physics of eruption in the biosphere given verbal articulation-->https://twitter.com/i/status/1266448204176003072

 

More symbolically pathetic leftist ranting, most always glossing over the real actions to get to the leftist agenda at hand:

There's a crisis afoot.

 

If black people had never been sold by black people and brought to America 75% of the black population wouldn’t even exist today and the 25% that did exist would reside in Africa a “third world country”. ( google the life expectancies of a black African) The first blacks who came to America did pay the price for all the black citizens of America today.
The Native American people paid and some are still paying the price for every American citizen of all races.

 

****The first blacks who came to America did pay the price for all the black citizens of America today.*****
For the legacy of our progenitors,we seek more that the left-overs of ours and their industry..