Benefits our nation ?
Ridiculous and flawed..............
Affirmative Action actually insult the minorities.
I have brain smart enough to pass the SAT to go to great colleges.
I don't want to get hired because I am a minority.
African Americans should reject AA, it's an insult to their hard work and intellegent.
BTW, anyone here is willing to be treated by a surgeon who only passed his below standard board test just because of his race ?
Not me, thank you !
Looks like someone didn't heed the warning...
For someone who claims to have passed the SAT (which isn't a test that is ranked on a pass/fail system to begin with), you surely don't have the brain capacity to understand what Affirmative Action does.
Here's the facts:
Affirmative Action only comes into play when we're dealing with two candidates of different races or sex who actually have the same work and academic credentials. This is to try and prevent decisions based on very old stereotypes such as "women are better secretaries than managers", or "blacks are only good at being entertainers and sportsmen." You try to paint this picture that any minority who actually does worse than someone else in a test can somehow use Affirmative Action to get ahead. That is completely false.
Now let's revisit the New Haven Firefighters issue. Obviously you don't know the whole story so let me educate you. The problem had nothing to do with Affirmative Action. What actually happened was that a test result was going to be thrown out, and a completely different test was going to be administered to EVERYONE who took the first one. Now do the math, Mr. SAT. If this is the case then who is technically working harder? NOBODY. It's not as if the caucasion firefighters were going to get a second test different from everyone else. And it wasn't as if the minority firefighters were going to get less questions or easier ones.
EVERYONE who took the same first test would have had to take the same second test. Which means, EVERYONE would have been given the same amount of work.
The only reason why the Caucasion Fire Fighters cried "reverse racism" and "Affirmative Action" is because they did well the first time and didn't want to take the test again. THEY were the ones trying to not do more work. Not the minorities. Because really... if this was about "working hard", why would the best people try to find a way to get out from doing their job unless they DIDN'T want to work as hard as everyone else? Do yourself a favor and don't even bother answering the question, because to be honest I already know what your response will be. But if you think that somehow you can bring something even more enlightening to the table then please try. Tap into your self-imposed, elite SAT skills and try to form an argument that is factual... not based on bigoted, inaccurate information.