I wanted to continue talking about the idea of affirmative action during job interviews, and other things that set racial quotas. Sometimes the reason why I don't talk in class is because I don't want to offend anyone and I don't want people to take what I mean to say in the wrong context. I completely disagree with affirmative action in this case. In fact I don't really know where I agree with it. Yes I understand a lot of stuff has gone on in the past against racial and ethnic groups, but if we keep trying to "pay back" for what our "white privileged ancestors" have done, wouldn't that just keep the cycle going? When is enough enough? In the case of applying for a job, I think they application should be more blind. It reminded me of how one of the Professors grades exams. She makes us write out name on the backs so that she grades our papers before knowing who wrote them. If you do this during the job interviewing process, I don't see how the write man/woman for the job wouldn't get it. If all the people that are best qualified happen to be black, then they just happen to be black. Or if the only people qualified happen to be mainly women, then that's the way it should be.
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