Originally Posted by
slammer1906
5) Why do we have affirmative action? Because of mistakes the previous generation made. I, u, and our peers have nothing to do with that, but we cant undue it today. We have to live with it.
This was the attitude of generations past and it didn't stand then and it shouldn't be accepted now. Others said that times like Jim Crowe couldn't be changed because 'that was the way things had always been'.
USMCFLYR