Re: Affirmative Action Supreme Court ruling

["Karen Canty" <kvscanty@pacbell.net>]

Excuse me Arthur but I don't think that the Jim Crow laws in the South
were "random" discrimination nor was the Sedition Act...do you?

Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org [mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org]
On Behalf Of Arthur Hu
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [arn-l] Affirmative Action Supreme Court ruling

So we should be randomly discriminating against white and 
Asian guys to make up for random discrimination against
women and other minorities??

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org]On Behalf Of Karen Canty
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [arn-l] Affirmative Action Supreme Court ruling


Richard,

I agree but as a young employed single woman who was told by her boss
that he wouldn't promote her because she "should" be home making babies
- and he said it with a straight face and at the time, there was
absolutely nothing I could do about it - except wait - until he got
fired for doing a lousy job!  So until the day comes that the system is
whatever-blind, I agree that we need something to level the playing
field.  

And I for one am grateful that Sandra Day O'Connor was there to help
that happen...

Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org [mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org]
On Behalf Of Richard
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [arn-l] Affirmative Action Supreme Court ruling

As much as we all would like to live in a utopian society, there is 
always room to for improvement. I would like to see Color, Sex, Religion

not considered in any hiring or admission policies however as long as 
the Good Old Boy Network exist, there will be a need for the government 
to step in to even the playing field.

Richard.

Karen Canty wrote:

>I just read the ruling by the Supreme Court re: Affirmative
>Action.interesting decision..seems as though it gives a "road map",
>i.e., the UofM's law school's form of Affirmative Action vs. the
>undergrad program that is constitutionally viable.
> 
>I wonder if the discrimination O'Connor felt when she graduated from
>Stanford Law (the only job she was offered in corporate law was as a
>secretary and was told that law firms would "never" hire female
>attorneys) had anything to do with her defining role in the law school
>case.I would suspect so.Oh, and she was hired by the district attorney
>in San Mateo County (where I live) as an Assistant D.A. - interestingly
>enough, he was an Italian who had suffered discrimination when he went
>to law school and beyond..
> 
>I also found it interesting that she cited the military and corporate
>interests who filed briefs in the UofM's favor in her opinion..
> 
>So George Cunningham, did I win or did you?  Maybe a split?
> 
>Karen
>  
>


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