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?

[DoubleJ]

Whoa, calling us morons is a little bit much no? I am totally behind you that the government has long neglected the ghetto and poverty stricken areas of the United States and something needs to be done about it. With that being said, I am fully behind affirmative action if it is being applied in the way that it was meant to be used. I mean come on let's be honest here, minorities definitely have it tougher than whites do. I was actually trying to base this on employment in a sense, but you bringing it to a point even before that is very good, but I don't think it actually goes in with what is being discussed right now. I mean, there isn't going to be affirmative action at high school or anything like that. The point that I was trying to make in some of my posts, is that whites complain about affirmative action when it comes to minorities getting preference, but honestly, I believe that the law is definitely correct in it's purpose. My situation is the perfect example. Affirmative action does not only apply to just race either. When applying for civil service positions in NYC, if you are a resident of the five boroughs, you get bonus points as opposed to people who live in long island or NY state. The point is, that people aren't always going to agree with it, but I believe that the law is necessary to stop the bullshit treatment that minorities experience. Another thing, why is it that when people say minorities, they automatically think of blacks? What about hispanics and asians.