home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky alt.discrimination:5475 soc.culture.african.american:13337 misc.education:5588
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination,soc.culture.african.american,misc.education
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!johnhall
- From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.180452.3485@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:04:52 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec18.170036.1548@microsoft.com> <1992Dec25.022854.811@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Lines: 22
-
- In article <1992Dec25.022854.811@samba.oit.unc.edu> Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- | Again, could you explain how giving a Blak worker with 20 years service
- | preferences over a Caucasian worker with 5 years serivce benefits the
- | Caucasian worker?
-
- Obviously, the Caucasian got the preference, did he not?
-
- Anyway -- why choose one worker over another in the first place?
- If the choice is random, then proportional representation is a valid
- demand.
- If the choice is merit, then why are you talking about seniority?
-
- The *overriding* objection to AA is merit. By explicitly renouncing
- merit in talking about seniority, you're only talking about which
- non-merit approach has a particular result -- and picking one that
- whites do better at without a rational reason not to pick one
- others do better at (AA).
-
- Does you 'c' key not work in the immediately before a 'k' key or what?
-
- --
- -------------------------
- My comments are my own. They are independent and unrelated to the
- views of my company , relatives or elected representatives.
-
-