Equal Opportunity for Minorities Options

[DoubleJ]

I am sure a topic like this already exists, but I really don't give a f**k. I will layout the background of the story for you and then the question.

So I am on a forum at my other forum site and I am really shocked at what I am reading. In the northeastern states, they have a practice of hiring more minorities because they have a quota to fill. Nowhere does it exist more than in my state of New Jersey. They actually have a law, that says that fire departments have to hire a certain amount of minorities every year. My beef is that there are alot of whites who feel as though the law is stupid because it can take a white guy who is very qualified and put him behind a black or hispanic guy who is less qualified like me. People are really upset over this because they think that minorities should not get special treatment just because they are minorities. They feel as though they should have to go through the same type of treatment that the whites should. Some think that it is an unfair system and should be changed. Others, like me, think that it is fair especially when the white guys who don't live in the city come in and steal jobs. I guess my question would be this, do you guys think that it is fair for not only state employers, but employers in general to hire minorities over whites even if they are less qualified?

[NoSex]

I'm against quotas based on skin color (I know a f**k load of black kids that have more money and more opportunity than I do) and more so for quotas based on economic class (I know a f**k load of white kids that have less money and less opportunity that a shit load of black kids).
But, in either case, it's all a f**king smoke screen. If you morons haven't realized it yet, it's curing the symptom, but not the disease.

What needs to be done is an entire revamping of the educational system and a full-fledged war against poverty. Our government needs to take responsibility for abandoning the ghettos. We need to ensure that schools can afford the necessities and that, further, kids have the means to learn in a safe environment while being able to concentrate on Calculus homework as opposed to paying the bills and finding food to eat.

f**k affirmative action man, that shit is racist.