Reply To: systematic/institutional racism is a myth

Dear Ben,
Well, if you are curious, you can look for better information. Affirmative Action in the USA, only meant that you can not discriminate on who you hire or admit to your school. Basic 1964 civil rights act stuff. [Executive orders by Kennedy and Johnson.] The ideas of minorities getting into universities instead of whites, is from money being offered to universities to take in minorities or whatever. We are very used to this kind of ‘pull’ in our world. I don’t know why it is surprising to find it in the secular world as well. [Some recent news stories highlight this.] The issue gets complicated, when the State offers tax breaks and the like for minority jobs. (I think the first big case was Colorado 1994.) This is because of the ambiguity of our tax codes, as well as general ignorance of state finances. We should care about it much more than race issues, but we just ignore it.