Thursday, April 28, 2011

Arguments over Affirmative Action

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/sally-kern-affirmative-action_n_854936.html

Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern believes we're past the need for affirmative action. She says "minorities earn less than white people because they don’t work as hard and have less initiative.

“We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.”"

It's good to know the people in our government refuse to recognize white privilege and just how detrimental years of oppression can be for minorities.

Victoria Rader Post 22

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