This is my last post to this discussion. It's obvious to me that some, just some, people in this discussion are demonstrating the racial problems I was describing. Since I posted here, I've been called an '*******' and told to "get a *****ing job". So, because I believe that I'm at a disadvantage as an African American, I must not have a job? Give me a break. This is exactly what Nth Man and I were talking about. And some of you all need to do a better job of reading an entire post instead of selective parts. I never said every white person in America should apologize to African-Americans. I said that the US government as a whole should apologive. As far as AA is concerned, I don't believe in it. It was a good idea, but it doesn't work. There are 2 ways that AA hurts African-Americans. The first is that, like Nth Man said, some employeers don't even look at an applicants qualifications. So not only are qualified white men and women being overlooked but so are qualified African-Americans. The second way it hurts is when an African American gets a job at a company that uses AA, the majority of the time it is assumed that they got the job because of AA and not on their own merits. This futher fuels the claim that African-Americans are lazy.

That's it...no more from me on this topic. If you want to neg me for expressing my views, then fine.