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  1. Xref: sparky misc.education:4465 alt.discrimination:4717 soc.culture.african.american:11481 soc.women:20203
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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!s5!sethb
  4. From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
  5. Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov23.225125.3966@fid.morgan.com>
  7. Organization: my opinions only
  8. References: <1egrcbINNdd@debussy.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov19.215527.14642@eng.umd.edu> <1ejbqvINNk7@debussy.crhc.uiuc.edu>
  9. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:51:25 GMT
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  11.  
  12. In article <1ejbqvINNk7@debussy.crhc.uiuc.edu> guillory@crhc.uiuc.edu
  13. (Stanford Guillory) writes:
  14. >clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
  15.  
  16. >>    The question is, therefore, what is the goal of preferential treatment?
  17.  
  18. >>Is it to create a percentage of engineers that is equivalent to the
  19. >>racial or female percentages in society?   
  20. >
  21. >Although I don't think anyone has as a goal to equate the percentage of black
  22. >engineers to thier percentage of the population. Rather, it is just to increase
  23. >the percentage. If 9% of engineers were black, I don't think anyone would see
  24. >a problem. On the other hand, 4% seems absurdly low.
  25.  
  26. The "advantage" of "just to increase the percentage" is that you don't
  27. have to stop when "parity" is reached.  How about a goal that says
  28. that no *individual* will be discriminated against on the basis of
  29. race?  Do you support that goal?
  30.  
  31. Seth        sethb@fid.morgan.com
  32.