Affirmative action is mandatory for affirmative discrimination. Racist employers have proven that they will only be fair when forced to be so legally. Affirmative action ensures fairness in increasingly hostile and ruthless workplaces.
Neoconservatives paint affirmative action as a program that favors the hiring of community college graduates over Ivy League graduates. It does no such thing. It does INCLUDE Black Ivy Leaguers in otherwise exclusively white Ivy League personnel pools. Racism forces most Black college graduates to be academically superior to their white peers. Whatever we do, racist professors force us to do it better than white students to achieve the same grades. Fortunately, we excel with habitual ease.
Masterfully, neocons are revamping affirmative action programs to benefit white South Africans and conservative white, female Americans exclusively. Actually, it has always benefitted whites more than Blacks, as “quotas” are always predominately white numerically. Sexism is still more rampant than racism. Black men still earn more than Black women in similar jobs. White women fare better than all Blacks in every occupational arena.
In 1984, author George Orwell coined the term “Newspeak”. Neocons speak it fluently. “Affirmative action reform” really means “securing the good old white boy networks in offices everywhere”. Racism is STILL a reality, especially in employment. The playing fields in the offices of America have never been made level. And, the racist coaches never changed the rules of the game. Don those helmets. This game is getting tougher daily. The New World Order is in progress. The Revolution is in the streets...