Education and a strong work ethic has no color
When will affirmative action go away? Like the unions, it served its purpose, but with millions looking for jobs, don’t we want the most qualified?
It’s time the color of one’s skin and quotas gets tossed. Need a doctor? Plumber? Police officer? Qualifications and experience should be the only focus.
Yet, politicians, celebrities, and “the others” stoke the fires. The focus on skin color is a distraction. Teaching the value of work, doing the right thing and getting the best education needs to be the focus.
Parents need to get mad if their child isn’t getting a good education. Stupid shouldn’t get a person hired, nor should quotas or the color of one’s skin. If someone is willing to work hard to be the best at what he or she is capable, hire that person. No one is entitled, but everyone needs to graduate high school and work.
Parents continue, or begin, to teach children a solid work ethic; have them make their beds, wash dishes, rake leaves, or get a part time job. Serve as a role model, and make sure your child is getting a solid education. An education or a lack of one is the biggest discrimination factor. Those who cannot communicate, think, respect work-- all will lose when affirmative action ends. Victimization, entitlements and excuses wear thin on those who pay for lazy and stupid.
Rather than focus on skin color, focus on education. The choice to learn, work, and improve on one’s life, goes beyond the color of one’s skin.
And, once again, she's talking about something she has NOT ONE clue about. This time it's education.
She is trying to say: start educating your kids while they're kids. Get them the best education possible in order to have the best opportunities possible in life. Dont depend on "conditions" to decide your childrens fate. Educate, educate, educate. To all you men posting: your comments/ attitudes are why this world is in the messed up place is it. Insulting women and belittling them IN PUBLIC with your names... is outrageous. Takes highly educated and clued in men to do that.
We do have freedom of speech but some of the Avonites can't manage to be civil in their comments. Makes me glad to live in Kent.
Your argument is fully counter to the original one expressed in the article.
Yeah, because of OUR comments. That's the reason. The world didn't start going down the toilet until us men starting posting here bashing the usually-ignorant Kathleen. Would you like some more cheese with your WHINE, whiner? Oh, and all of that coming from someone whose last name starts with a "K." Stifle it, hypocrite.
Despite the progress that has been made, the playing field is far from level. Women continue to earn 77 cents for every male dollar (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2010). Black people continue to have twice the unemployment rate of White people, twice the rate of infant mortality, and just over half the proportion of people who attend four years or more of college (see Figure 1). In fact, without affirmative action the percentage of Black students at many selective schools would drop to only 2% of the student body (Bowen & Bok, 1998). This would effectively choke off Black access to top universities and severely restrict progress toward racial equality.
Actually, most supporters of affirmative action oppose this type of preferential selection. Preferential selection procedures can be ordered along the following continuum: Selection among equally qualified candidates. The mildest form of affirmative action selection occurs when a female or minority candidate is chosen from a pool of equally qualified applicants (e.g., students with identical college entrance scores). Survey research suggests that three-quarters of the public does not see this type of affirmative action as discriminatory (Roper Center for Public Opinion, 1995d). Selection among comparable candidates. A somewhat stronger form occurs when female or minority candidates are roughly comparable to other candidates (e.g., their college entrance scores are lower, but not by a significant amount). The logic here is similar to the logic of selecting among equally qualified candidates; all that is needed is an understanding that, for example, predictions based on an SAT score of 620 are virtually indistinguishable from predictions based on an SAT score of 630.
Selection among qualified and unqualified candidates. The strongest form of preferential selection occurs when unqualified female or minority members are chosen over other candidates who are qualified. Although affirmative action is sometimes mistakenly equated with this form of preferential treatment, federal regulations explicitly prohibit affirmative action programs in which unqualified or unneeded employees are hired (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, 2011).
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It's not men who are posting about a woman. It's people with IQs over 60 posting about someone who needs to take off her shoes to count to 11.
How does it feel Kathleen O'Brien-Typical-Teabagger Nutjob that even Gawker thought your ramblings were that of a crazy person. You should see the comments by readers on that site. Congratulations, you clueless right-wing hag -- you've made yourself a national joke. But, I love you Kathleen, because I'm an ignorant right-winger like you are. And Patch -- congrats on continuing to prove why you're a big failure. Whomever allowed that to go through must be proud. Just a professional note: if you really think you stand a chance on working for a REAL publication, you don't want to ever admit you worked for Patch.