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<blockquote data-quote="JoeVser" data-source="post: 551874" data-attributes="member: 23401"><p>I agree,Jim,and I can talk from personal experience. I am a "2 strikes" white male and was vicitimized by affirmative action back in the late 70's,early 80's. It took my 9 VERY long years to finally become a police officer only to be told numerous times..This test is for minorities only..When I was finally hired, I worked with many minority police officers and they were great cops. Affirmative action actually hurts minorities in my opinion.</p><p>In many agenecies,I would be 1-2 steps of being hired only to be told,the "list" expired hence minorities go ahead of me. It was infuriating and made me look at minority police and firemen and think he got the job because of his race etc. I am against affirmative action because all it does is exacerbate racism.</p><p>Judge Sotomayor's rise to her judgeship is a great story,the American Dream,if you will. But how many other qualified candidates were passed over to have "racial equality?"</p><p>We don't need someone like this to be on the Supreme Court that can empathise with people. We need someone to interpret the law not have a good feeeeeeeling about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoeVser, post: 551874, member: 23401"] I agree,Jim,and I can talk from personal experience. I am a "2 strikes" white male and was vicitimized by affirmative action back in the late 70's,early 80's. It took my 9 VERY long years to finally become a police officer only to be told numerous times..This test is for minorities only..When I was finally hired, I worked with many minority police officers and they were great cops. Affirmative action actually hurts minorities in my opinion. In many agenecies,I would be 1-2 steps of being hired only to be told,the "list" expired hence minorities go ahead of me. It was infuriating and made me look at minority police and firemen and think he got the job because of his race etc. I am against affirmative action because all it does is exacerbate racism. Judge Sotomayor's rise to her judgeship is a great story,the American Dream,if you will. But how many other qualified candidates were passed over to have "racial equality?" We don't need someone like this to be on the Supreme Court that can empathise with people. We need someone to interpret the law not have a good feeeeeeeling about it. [/QUOTE]
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