Jennifer Gratz on "Off the Record" Part 2

[rjslade]

Ms. Gratz' "56%" in favor was quite prescient...actual was 58% in favor.

[Gary190tube]

she's a hero for speaking out against racism.

[ap9386]

If Asians can succeed without affirmative action, why can't any other minority?

[ddchoidbx275]

Jennifer Gratz is my new hero

[1453074]

I wonder why people like Jennifer Gratz fight for this kind of thing until the numbers of white students on college campuses go up and then do nothing to increase the acceptance of people of color. They never do anything like economic affirmative action that they say, they would stand for. They just like to leave schools in the situation that UC Berkeley and UCLA is in, which is mostly white.

[MultiSmartass1]

@1453074 Because they care nothing about students of color and are in fact against them.

The word fairness used in this context is nothing but a code word for white entitlement.

Anytime some white privilege is percieved to be altered or waning.

Keep in mind who runs this society.

Forget Obama, the Congress is overwhelmingly white as is the Fortune 500 coporate boards and other centers of power.

Black people run nothing in this society.

End AA and you add to keeping non-whites down.

[RCHorn7]

The Union guy came off as some sort of a bully. Really funny how he is trying to defend the indefensible. Affirmative Action is discrimination no matter how you try to define it. Thank goodness the voters of Michigan saw through the bullying tactics of the Fringe Left. If only such a proposal came to the State of Texas, it would pass overwhelmingly.

[statelybird3]

Yeah, well, I'm a Michigan voter and I voted not to get rid of AA---I don't know how you can call AA discrimination when it only picks out a certain select number of people of color to get into colleges. Basically, I don't know why Jennifer Gratz had to get rid of AA int he state of Michigan just because SHE didn't get to go to the college SHE wanted to. And, like Tim Wise said, it's funny how she never made a big deal about he fact that white kids with rich relatives could get in just as quick.

[karateman232]

@statelybird3 Think about what you are saying. You are talking about SOCIO-ECONOMIC status, not race. White DOES NOT EQUAL rich, just as black DOES NOT EQUAL poor. And of course that's where she started speaking out against Affirmative Action. That's where it affected her initially.

[MultiSmartass1]

@karateman232 In this society, Black does equal poor at the least working class and white does equal rich or at least middle class.

Race and class go together in this country-one is not seperate from the other.

This woman was another resentful failure who couldn't get into the college she wanted.

She's a loser because this is the act of a loser.

The facts is she resents any non-white person gaining any shred of opportunity.

Otherwise , why do this?

[Pelonetillo]

shes an idiot.

[Yelin7]

She destroyed this guy. He sounded like a racist Southern sheriff lashing out at "outside agitators" coming in and changing their Michigan values. "Carpetbaggers" like the host called them. The fact that he doesn't see the irony is amazing.