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Originally Posted by Cajuncowboy

When you start making rules based on race then it is racism in some form. Affirmative action was and so is this sham.

According to whom? You?

I've already given you the definition of racism. Racism is not and cannot be merely acknowledging race and a need for racial diversity. That's done in many segments of employment, especially if there's a particular target market one is trying to reach.

Furthermore, Affirmative Action was necessary to combat legitimate forms of racism that infested America's workforce at all levels, including in the government and in the private sector. Why do you think we have to finally write laws prohibiting racial discrimination? The presence of such laws suggests that racial preferences were historically part of employment practices.

The difference between those racially discriminatory practices and Affirmative Actions policies is that the former were based on a belief that minorities weren't competent or smart enough to do certain jobs. That's racism.

However, Affirmative Actions policies and laws were based on a desire to integrate blacks into the workforce because they historically had been discriminated against. AA has nothing to do with giving blacks and other minorities preferential treatment because they are superior to whites. Hence, not racism.

Again, you can't ignore race. God made the races so, obviously, He felt racial distinctions were necessary in that they illustrated the diversity within His creation.

The problem is because we as a society and civilization have engaged in racial discrimination we have to overcompensate in either acting as it shouldn't matter or instituting policies that correct racial prejudice of the past.

And I didn't say there was racism in the NFL, I said I wasn't saying there was. difference being I don't know.
But if your assumption that the NFL owners saw a need for it then you have to draw the conclusion that they felt they were racist. And as such needed a rule to save them from themselves.

You whole position falls on that premise alone.

No, my assumption does not hinge on the fact NFL owners were racist. They may have been truly blind to this issue. People can have racial prejudices without necessarily being racist. However, they acknowledged that maybe they aren't as aggressive in recognizing and promoting black coaching talent in the NFL. Hence, the Rooney Rule.

And with that i am done with this cockamamie discussion. It's a ******* rule made by a bunch of *******' to appease an ever progressive mindset that blacks are incapable of accomplishing things on their own so they have to have "extra" help.

I wish blacks didn't need the extra help either. Unfortunately, history proves that's generally the case when people because of their own blinders don't always look at blacks in the same way they do whites.

I believe blacks are just as capable as whites and that people are fools if they overlook a candidate because of their race.

I agree.