Should Africans get affirmative action?

[Al B. Sure!]

if affirmative action exists to redress past wrongs then Africans should not gain the benefits of it what with a recent Nigerian or Sudanese immigrant not having ancestors who were enslaved and oppressed by the US... if AA exists to remedy continuing racism, however, then Africans should get...

so what do yall think? Assuming affirmative action is justified (don't make this a thread about whether it's right or wrong because there's already a thread for that), should Africans get it?

[Victor Galis]

No one should get Affirmative Action. You can't solve a problem caused by discrimination through discrimination.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

AA should not be practiced in state schools. Private schools can do whatever they like: either AA or no AA.

[Al B. Sure!]

like i said... there already is a thread about whether AA is right or wrong... this thread is only intended for if Africans should get it or not as they're ancestors were never enslaved or held down in any way

[Sava]

AA is the wrong solution for a real problem. Providing equal opprotunity is the only way to be fair. Unfortunately, there isn't equal opprotunity in America.

[Q Classic]

no. they would be taking advantage of a system that was not designed to redress being wronged in the past.

of course, it's hard as nails to try and sort out who's "deserving" of the african/black population and who's not, so...

[SlowwHand]

If anyone in the United States should get an Affirmative Action Program, and I'm not saying anybody should, it should be Native Americans.

[Inverse Icarus]

no, blacks should not get affirmative action, no one should. MLK is spinning in his grave right now, all his speeches talking about content of character over skin color have been ignored.

it's a god damned disgrace.

[Sava]

it's a disgrace, but I don't know if god damned it or not

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Sava
it's a disgrace, but I don't know if god damned it or not

god damned us all when he threw us on this rock.

i think he intended it to end quickly, but he may have miscalculated.

[atawa]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
If anyone in the United States should get an Affirmative Action Program, and I'm not saying anybody should, it should be Native Americans.

I agree (for once) with sloww.

But although african immigrants ancesters were not slaves (with the exception of some people from liberia off course) many of them were enslaved tortured and the likes by US sponsored regimes.

So why not?

[Sava]

god damned us all when he threw us on this rock.

i think he intended it to end quickly, but he may have miscalculated.

nah, I think we're a random phenomenom

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Sava


nah, I think we're a random phenomenom

i think we're intergalactic garbage. care to exchange theories?

[Sava]

Originally posted by UberKruX


i think we're intergalactic garbage. care to exchange theories?

It depends on your definition of garbage...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Sava
It depends on your definition of garbage...

communists...