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Originally Posted by perdidochas
As a white man, I once got a teaching job over qualified black applicants due to my race. The district (in central Georgia) was under court order that the teacher population exactly match the county population in black/white ratio. The school district was short on white people.... That said, it was not a good experience. Being hired for that reason caused a lot of resentment with the black teachers on staff who had friends that applied for my job. Affirmative action is essentially sayign that blacks aren't good enough to earn the job on their own.
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Quotas damage everyone.
AA had its use and justifications "back in the day." Like slavery, it's outlived its usefulness and any justification it might've had by about 1990.
Are their individual cases of discrimination?
You bet.
In all directions.
But racism as an INSTITUTION in US commerce and government is a thing very much of the past.
The non-hiring of whites here is not a quota thing. They'd probably actually hire a white person who was fluent in Spanish. But they are desperate to make the schools "lool like" the neighborhood. They did the same thing with fire dept. Two of their AA hires had gang-related criminal pasts that became public knowledge when these two were tried for looting homes they were fighting fires in.
So they are willing to hire sub-par teachers, so long as they speak Spanish and/or are not white.
Tokie