Reverse Racism

A friend of mine and I were recently discussing Real Estate Discrimination, and affirmative action. His point where Affirmative Action is concerned is that he should not be passed over for a job because the company hasn’t hired enough minorities. I agree. I don’t think that affirmative action is the answer.  We do need something in place however, else racism is allowed to run rampant correct?

He doesn’t think so, he doesn’t believe  anyone should  be forced to hire a person of color (I didn’t specifically ask about women, who are also covered by affirmative action) just because the government says so.

If it’s your company my friend believes you should be able to hire whomever you like. I agree to some point.  I don’t believe that one should HAVE to hire a black man over a white man just because they need a black man to keep the numbers right,  and frankly, I doubt there are many black men that would take a job if they realized that’s why they got it.

But you can’t just choose to discriminate, whether it be conscious discrimination or unconscious discrimination right? Again I don’t know the fix, or the how it should be regulated, but I do disagree with my friend, I believe that it MUST be regulated.

His stance here by the way, to be fair to him, isn’t pro-discrimination, it’s con-government control.. We’ll be talking more about the conversation he and I had in my post about housing discrimination here soon. In the meantime, I’m very interested in reading the comments and ideas from Racist Faces readers.