The Great Society and Affirmative Action may have been very necessary directly after the Civil Rights movement ended legal discrimination in the South, but that sort of massive govt intervention doesnt make much sense now. The govt should be in the business of enforcing the law to make sure there is as little discrimination as possible, and if there is any role for govt/society-at-large intervention into black life, it is in encouraging education/family/responsibility/independence. Basically, trying to rid of the Great Society hangover that has handicapped parts of the African American population.
Good article: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/...rter/ index.html from John McWhorter
Steve Spence | 02.06.07 - 10:04 am | #

I disagree. America has never been a meritocracy. America is in the path of resegregation:

www.csba.org/csmag/Summer04/ csMagStoryTemplate.cfm?id=43 - 33k -

You don't have the CGI BIN space for me to list all of the inequities in American Society in regards to race.
My opinion, in a nutshell...

As long as America is a racist society, we need Affirmative Action.

--Cobra
Cobra | Homepage | 02.17.07 - 4:58 pm | #