"Affirmative Action" "Reverse Racism" and other alliterative terms for an insane institution.

A comic I came across made me laugh recently. It also made me think; I disagreed with it.


What is the first thing you notice here? For me, it's the fact that this comic is saying that white people owe black people something.
The second thing: This comic treats white people and black people as completely seperate groups that can each be represented by an individual. Almost as though it's making assumptions based on the race of the person...

Isn't that called racism?

Here's my problem with the idea of "affirmative action". It assumes that black people deserve to be given better opportunities than white people in the same situation; because of their ancestry. This is nonsensical. Why should I care that person A is poor because their ancestors were slaves, while person B is poor because their ancestors relied on slaves for their plantations, and lost everything after the civil war? They're both poor people coming from underprivileged backgrounds whose parents can't support them through college. Why does A deserve the scholarship when B doesn't? A fair system should never punish someone for their ancestry.

Lots of people defending this reverse racism argue as though all black people are poor, and all white people are rich. My richest friend is black; I find any nation that'd give him a scholarship over my relatively poor white friend, who just happens to be a genius, to be a very silly one indeed.

Here in the UK we've never had as big a problem with this business as America has: We have the welfare state. People came along saying: "Those poor black people, they need support" and the government went "we support them 'cause they're poor already, why do we need to support them because they're black too?"

This post (כ) Kingreaper: Has a financial background more complicated than the Mandelbrot Set.