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Yes. Everybody, at some point in their career, has lost a job to a more qualified candidate or a candidate that is abetter fit. That is a normal part of working life. But that is different from what you are alleging. You are alleging that race was a factor. If you can prove that you lost the job or condo because of race, you can potentially win a large legal settlement. The company faces not only that financial loss, but also the social stigma that comes from such a lawsuit and/or Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson picketing their front door.

Nearly every white college applicant in the US has faced losing admission to their choice of schools and losing jobs to a less qualified blacks because of affirmative action. Being able to prove that the recipients of AA are less qualified and being judged on their race is not hard because it is the very point of affirmative action. But there is no recourse. No lawsuits, no million dollar settlement, no Jesse or Al picketing.

The race based unfairness that you are deriding is inherent in the very system that you are trying to defend.

It sounds nice, except… Those two equally capable runners have been dead for 150 years, and now their great-great-grand-children are running a race. Should those distant descendants be treated equally or with one given the advantage?

Martin Luther King said, and I agree, that a man be judged by the content of his character not by the color of his skin. Perhaps you have entirely forgotten the “I have a dream” speech? It means that judging blacks and whites by different standards is racist, and contains the implication that racism is wrong.

Your hypocritical contortions of logic that are necessary to support AA are beyond the bounds of reason.

Instead of trying to fix racism with more racism, why don’t we just try equality for once?

Again, its easy to say two wrongs dont make a right, when the wrong is benefiting YOU and folks like you.

Have you ever lost a job because a white candidate “was a better fit for the team”? Have you ever lost an admission spot to a legacy? Have you ever lost a condo because the white candidate was better for their “community”??? I have.

Trust me, White affirmative action is alive and well. Getting rid of government affirmative action will not change that. White will still benefit, as they do today, and minorities will be left out.

I do get the same question all the time, “but where are you really really from?” because I have an accent, I say I am an American with an accent

Thank you for this great article.

Two equally capable runners are in a ten mile marathon, one is given shoes, the other is not. The runner with shoes blazes ahead, but the runner without quickly falls behind. When the runner with shoes reached the sixth mile, the judges – realizing that the runner without shoes was so far behind as to be unable to compete – drove the runner without shoes to the sixth mile too.

At this point though, the shoeless runner had bloodied, torn up feet, and even though he was officially at the same position, he quickly fell behind again. He was able to go a little further, but there was no way he could win without some bandages and a pair of shoes.

It is also necessary to reevaluate the legacy of the radical socialist Martin Luther King, Jr. He opened the door, however well meaningly, to nonviolent leftist crazies who have greatly damaged the country. I am utterly convinced that MLK caused far more harm than good during his lifetime. He also encouraged self-hating Americanism with his relentless attacks on our “racist” war in Vietnam.