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This whole country is run like a good old boys club. The University of Arkansas is no exception. Anybody complaining about "Affirmative Action" for blacks can't be serious. This is the country of corporate welfare and taxpayer subsidies for CEOs. Americans are proud of providing "Affirmative Action" to the 1% who are wrecking their society.
Posted by arkansasmediawatch]]> Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:39:18 -0500 Arkansas Times
If black students can't get into a good college because of their grades, that has nothing to do with a court ruling, but it has everything to do with their performance. The idea that we LOWER the standards to accept students into medical school, so they can have the opportunity to practice medicine, is all fine and well until my family member needs to have surgery or gets sick. Then I want the BEST doctor, regardless of race, gender, religion or national origin to provide the with health care. Why should someone who worked harder, who was smarter, and who is more likely to save a patient's life be exiled because we want to make room for someone was was less competent? That notion is ridiculous.

The way to end racism is to quit treating some people special because of the sins of the past, and to quit framing all discussion in the context of race. Just STOP. Universities should not even ask the question of what race the student is who is applying, as it has no basis for determining who is going to succeed or be the best student.

People should advance on merit, not race, and this is common sense. You don't need the SCOTUS to tell you that treating people different because of race is wrong.
Posted by TheGadfly]]> Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:41:25 -0500 Arkansas Times
Wendell Griffin has to ask himself, when do African-Americans accept responsibility for their own development? Even if they were prevented from attending white universities and colleges during the Jim Crow era, didn't they have black universities to attend? Why didn't they create their own businesses and banks and economic infrastructure the way that other races did? The reason has more to do with an African heritage that was insufficient in the knowledge of economic development than them being held down.

Griffin also has to accept that African-American as well as other families are in a worse state currently due to the Democratic Party's Great Society than they were before the advent of those programs. The Great Society has created millions of single parent homes with fatherless, less educated children, not learning the social skills or having the discipline to complete a university degree or hold a middle-class job. In spite of this, Griffin, the Democrats et al. want to set up a permanent system of discrimination against other races to compensate for the unintended consequences of the welfare state - and mislead the public to believe their biggest problem is still discrimination - and dominate the networks and liberal print media (a form of tyranny) to censor anyone from explaining this colossal failure to the people.

Griffin uses the analogy of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe but the difference is it didn't call for discrimination against neighboring countries the way Affirmative Action calls for discrimination against other citizens. Reverse discrimination is a gross abuse of human rights against other human beings that has dire and adverse effects on their educational and professional opportunities and standard of living for their entire lives. A case could be made at the United Nations that Affirmative Action is a human rights violation.

Griffin and Gearhart also have to accept the message that Affirmative Action sends to the intended beneficiaries. It essentially says, it doesn't matter how little they study or prepare themselves they will still be accepted over others into a school or get the job - so why should they try.

Affirmative Action is an elevation of African-Americans and Hispanics above others in our society primarily for the purpose of ensuring the powerful positions of the Democratic Party regardless that they have to discriminate against their own race to do it.
Posted by Thomas Pope]]> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:03:14 -0500 Arkansas Times Arkansas' tradition of "saving" spots for incompetent doctors is scary.

But not nearly as scary as your begging the question. Been a race-baiting Southerner all your life?
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:33:53 -0500 Arkansas Times
Or is it that a primary care doctor's functions are overblown in stated complexity so that an RN nursing major graduate can really perform many of the functions of a primary care MD at least for routine stuff?

IMHO, RN's need to be elevated in stature and duties (and salary!) in treating patients while Primary Care Physicians need to be freed up to see fewer patients where they can spend more time with the more problematic issues facing patients.
Posted by Tortie_Tude]]> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:51:12 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by arkansas panic fan]]> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:50:31 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:11:55 -0500 Arkansas Times http://diversity.uark.edu/17.php and http://oeoc.uark.edu/145.php). In case you were wondering: no, the Plan does not include any quotas or other "reverse discrimination" measures, only a commitment to nondiscrimination. One wonders why they are making it difficult to access?
Posted by TM]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:43:26 -0500 Arkansas Times http://oir.uark.edu). For example, still only 25% of tenured professors are women. That figure has hardly changed in the last decade. The only category of faculty where women are over-represented is at the instructor level, the lowest and lowly paid category without long-term perspectives and job security, without a voice in faculty meetings etc. The fact is that many departments like (and are even encouraged) to hire female or minority instructors because they count towards "faculty diversity", while the tenured upper ranks of many departments remain white men's bastions as they were decades ago. It is also noteworthy that with all the growth in student enrollment, the number of faculty and especially of tenured faculty hardly increases.
Posted by TM]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:19:53 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by klowe40]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:07:14 -0500 Arkansas Times