Holy balls! Go on back to the 18th century.

I'll support that stance WHEN there is actual equality. It is a burden, yes, to try to win justice, but it is the most American of ideals. For more than a millennium there was institutional racism. Alas, and while we ourselves didn't do it we benefited from it and we have not yet leveled the field. When we get closer, I'll be with you. Right now, I can't in good conscience support you. You cannot just say, "Oops! My bad!" and think things will be merry. It takes work and patience.

When people begin thinking of everybody in equal terms, this will be perfect! Until that time, courts, congress and the senate will just have to do their jobs. +5

~~bit edited in at the bottom due to further understanding of the question Accept some Jim Crow? I do not understand what you are saying. I think that you are under the idea that the playing field is level or nearly so and there is no more discrimination against minorities. Your assumption is incorrect. At this time minority populaces do not yet have an equal footing with the majority populace. Some minorities have it better than others, some have it worse. I know many minority people who do not want help from affirmative action. I am one of them, even if affirmative action applied to my ethnicity, which it does not. I knew someone who quit when he learned that he had gotten his job that way. Your secondary assumption that all minorities want help from affirmative action is, thusly, also flawed. ----from the comment thread, edited: That might be. Or he could be referencing the Jim Crow laws. If he is saying that minorities should be willing to take sh*t, I would say to him why does the majority populace complain? . I am going to add that into my answer. --------- To elaborate upon that, if minorities should be willing to take sh*t, then the majority populace should not complain about any sh*t they get from AA. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If you say that one group of people should be willing to take sh*t, then, if you are striving for any sense of equality, you should say that ALL should be willing to take sh*t. If you are referring to JIM Crow, as in the old laws, that is reprehensible.

Yes, but people will never see eye-to-eye based on perception bias. What makes a minority a minority is the fact that there is less of that group. Thus, equality would be unequal giving the weighted average. … For example, after Barack Obama was elected many people said “it is about time a black person gets elected, black people have been discriminated in politics for far too long.” Of course, statistically speaking, this statement is wholly erroneous. Since the civil rights movement ended in 1968, 12.5% of the presidents have been black. The percentage of black Americans has held steady at 10.5 - 12.5% of the population.