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BainsBane

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47. Look at what its description of Affirmative Action is

Reply to Romulox (Reply #46)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:31 PM

Jun 2015

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I don't think you even read it.

For federal contractors and subcontractors, affirmative action must be taken by covered employers to recruit and advance qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and covered veterans. Affirmative actions include training programs, outreach efforts, and other positive steps. These procedures should be incorporated into the company’s written personnel policies. Employers with written affirmative action programs must implement them, keep them on file and update them annually.

It simply means they can't discriminate and should make some effort to attract a broad applicant pool. It isn't the original meaning of hiring more women and minorities to redress pass grievances. SCOTUS has made that illegal.

Quit digging? How about you start reading
You point black refused to read Scotus decisions. Why do you insist on ignoring the progression of laws prohiting racial preferences in hiring and admittance? Why do you insist on ignoring facts?
? Those are SCOTUS decisions. Just because you found something called Affirmative Action doesn't mean it provides for addressing past injustices by hiring more people of color.

Where have you been the last 30 years that you think Affirmative Action is alive and well in America? I didn't think anyone outside the right bought into that BS. Unfucking real.

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Where is this from? The link's not working. n/t pnwmom Jun 2015 #1

Sorry, I fixed it BainsBane Jun 2015 #2

Thanks! She's a good writer. n/t pnwmom Jun 2015 #4

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Brava Bains! sheshe2 Jun 2015 #5

What Sanders doesn't seem to understand is that racists would rather not get their fair share pnwmom Jun 2015 #6

So the agenda should be set by racists then? betterdemsonly Jun 2015 #13

You don't understand correctly BainsBane Jun 2015 #14

That is factually incorrect. Romulox Jun 2015 #42

There have been a whole series of SCOTUS decisions BainsBane Jun 2015 #45

You were wrong. Quit digging. That is the US Dep't of Labor's current website. nt Romulox Jun 2015 #46

Look at what its description of Affirmative Action is BainsBane Jun 2015 #47

Hillary has always been more liberal than her husband. Please do not define her by him. n/t pnwmom Jun 2015 #15

She had an opportunity to prove that in the Senate. betterdemsonly Jun 2015 #17

Thanks. When she was in the Senate she had one of the most progressive records there. pnwmom Jun 2015 #18

Well if we're going to move the goal post to general progressivism, from policies that help blacks betterdemsonly Jun 2015 #20

She gets an 85 from me, he gets a 90. Neither is perfect and both are far better pnwmom Jun 2015 #21

Kick & recommended. William769 Jun 2015 #7

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we must be running out of anti Bernie material. we are doing re-runs! m-lekktor Jun 2015 #9

Missed that BainsBane Jun 2015 #10

Hillary doesn't have a record of focusing on either economic or racial justice betterdemsonly Jun 2015 #11

It's not a strawman BainsBane Jun 2015 #12

So a conversation is more important than actual record huh? betterdemsonly Jun 2015 #16

I'm enclined to agree with you. Betty Karlson Jun 2015 #19

We don't elect a president to vote in congress BainsBane Jun 2015 #25

You are twisting words again. I wish you would stop that. Betty Karlson Jun 2015 #29

The points are clearly laid out in the article BainsBane Jun 2015 #50

OMG! ^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^ Tarheel_Dem Jun 2015 #51

Why do you keep describing Hillary Clinton as an appendage of Bill? BainsBane Jun 2015 #22

Yes, she had an independent poltical career in the Senate betterdemsonly Jun 2015 #23

Increasingly, though, black and other scholars are showing us that racial disadvantage won’t be Cha Jun 2015 #24

Ironic dreamnightwind Jun 2015 #26

What is interesting about that BainsBane Jun 2015 #27

LOL dreamnightwind Jun 2015 #28

Clearly you didn't read the article BainsBane Jun 2015 #34

Actually it is Joan Walsh that doesn't interest me dreamnightwind Jun 2015 #35

Operative? ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #41

Sorry to you and BB that part of my post was not accurate dreamnightwind Jun 2015 #55

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"Race card" is a right-wing trope BainsBane Jun 2015 #33

Interesting gollygee Jun 2015 #38

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Yup, can't accuse her of being colorblind during the 2007 primaries. nt Bonobo Jun 2015 #32

This is just a dishonest attempt to promote Clinton's bid for the presidency. Vattel Jun 2015 #36

This sermon is from Joan Walsh on talking about racism? Melissa Harris-Perry had words for Joan a Bluenorthwest Jun 2015 #37

Bernie Sanders doesn't care about black people. frylock Jun 2015 #39

For the poster who invoked the term strawman BainsBane Jun 2015 #40

get used to it.. frylock Jun 2015 #44

That's one way to show BainsBane Jun 2015 #48

Uhh..no. You misrepresent my mocking of concern trolls as not caring about these issues. frylock Jun 2015 #49

You know what I'm loving? ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #43

Who ever wanted to just talk about economic justice? Comrade Grumpy Jun 2015 #52

I had the impression it had been ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #53