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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on April 03, 2011, 03:51:55 PM
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A TV presenter has hit out at the Government's new positive action law saying people should be judged on their ability and not skin colour.
Kat Akingbade said she was overjoyed to learn she had been picked to star alongside TV magician Derren Brown in Channel 4 series The Science of Scams.
However, she later discovered it was not wholly her ability to do the job, but her skin colour which helped land her the role.
Now she has called on employers to pick the person they believe will be best at the job - and said those not selected for jobs and promotions must strive to make themselves more competitive instead.
Speaking to the Independent on Sunday, Ms Akingbade said when she discovered bosses had picked her because she was black it bought her 'crashing down' and prompted her to question whether other successes in her life were 'real.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372940/Employed-I-black-Positive-discrimination-black-white-says-TV-presenter.html#ixzz1IUn0bPeu
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All the more reason to do away with affirmative action. I have to wonder how many jobs I've lost out on because of my race.
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All the more reason to do away with affirmative action. I have to wonder how many jobs I've lost out on because of my race.
This young woman could be the daughter of a former supervisor I had. She a black woman from the south that was old enough to remember having to ride in the back of buses in Georgia was the only black woman in her mid 50'ies to complain about affirmative action I have ever met.
She really screw up my idea of what I had believed to be a benefit to her race. I at first though the woman was NUTS but later in years down the line I began to understand her unconventional thoughts.
She claimed that the welfare laws and affirmative action was robbing her race of the ability to get out there and better themselves, she believed the abortion laws was destroying the people of her race. WOW
To her way of thinking it was the whites that destroyed the black family's by taking woman off welfare if their husband lived with them. The men had to leave the family unit so the kids could get welfare, if they were caught living with the family then the kids suffered so the fathers had to leave the family if for any reason they could not support their family.
Interesting woman and I feel for her problems growing up in the south as a child and all she went through. Was she raciest, you betcha she hated the white laws that came about, was she raciest personally, darn if I know but she was one angry woman.
Why did she talk to me a Yankee cracker, now that is another thing I don't understand. Now today I am beginning to understand her thinking, she may just have hit the nail on the head.
Unfortunately for racists all things come to pass, when I was told her son had married a white woman I liked to have peed my pants laughing, but then had to stop and think about her feelings and how she had made me THINK about her view points.