Discriminations

John,

The vast majority of universities do this, so it should not be any surprise. In fact, I have seen an even more extreme example of this kind of behavior.

The University of Michigan (and many other schools) regularly has hiring freezes. Sort of. You see, they take away money from departments for new faculty hires. Then, they give that money to the diversity department. Then, they announce a hiring freeze. Finally, the diversity department makes money available to hire new minority faculty. Of course, the departments can cry foul. If so, they lose even the money to hire the minority faculty.

Now, would you take the money and make a "diversity" hire, or cry foul?

Affirmative Action is justified because the State engaged in Sexism against Women or Racism against People of Color in hiring

To be clear, if racial discrimination for blacks is justified, then racial discrimination against blacks was never objectively wrong to begin with. It was simply a contemporary norm, an exercise in self advocacy and power politics against blacks as is racial discrimination against anyone not black today.

Further, "affirmative action" provides this generation of non blacks with every moral justification needed to discriminate against blacks without guilt.

Here, we have both the "official route" towards preferential hires, as with Oregon, and an unofficial system: If a minority candidate appears in the search, the Dept. head requests a "targeted hire" from the Provost, which covers a large portion of the startup (150k - 250k in a science dept.) and most of the salary for 3 - 5 years. The Provost then pressures the Dean of the college to not count that hire against that dept. and the dept. gets a free slot at the expense of another dept. in the same college. When it succeeds, just about everybody except the Provost (whose goal is demographic perfection) and the dept. head (whose goal is another faculty slot and a bigger pay raise) is ticked off by the politics and bs.
Sometimes it even turms comical: a dept. in this college received a targeted hire for young black woman, and all the diversity folks were wild with excitement. Later, however, when they found out that she was a) from a wealthy family, b) speaks with a valley girl accent, c) is very attractive, d) has a white boyfreind, and e) is somewhat conservative, many started planning on how to block tenure. I hope they fail.

Mikem - Racial Discrimination against Black Afrikans is based upon White European-American supremacy where Black Afrikans are considered genetically inferior to White European-Americans -
If the US is based upon Equal Protection of the Law then racial discrimination against Black Afrikans based upon White European-American supremacy violates that principle US Constitution 14th Amendment 1868
Finally White European-Americans Males are the most powerful social group in the US - Morality dictates that the Strong should suffer for the weak - Women & People of Color

As long as we are relating stories, I'll tell you one about a woman who was hired in one of the diversity slots at University of Michigan that I described above.

It turns out that her husband wanted a job, but there was nothing for him to do at University of Michigan.

So, she threatened to quit. After loading her up with various preferences in her first few years, they then had to turn around and give him a (non-faculty) job and PAY HIS SALARY for FIVE YEARS in a position that was not needed and had not existed.

So, the men reading this post can be happy, right? Wrong, this whole picture is sickening.

FreeMan -- You continually use the phrase "People of Color". Affirmative Action, especially the proportional representation school of Affirmative Action, was specifically designed to discriminate against people of color. It has had this effect in every university. Every time preferential treatment has been barred, the number of Asians, especially Indians and Chinese, has increased at American Universities. There is no secret about this. At all American Univesities, applications are rejected because the applicant is Asian, and the reason is Affirmative Action. It is similar to past measures, such as those that held down Jews and southern Europeans. In every case, these measures have been supported by both Universities and government, and they have always been called liberal policies.

The situation is now so bad that you can actually cast Affirmative Action not as black vs. white, but as black vs. other people of color.

Divide & Conquer - resistance to Affirmative Action is based upon White European-American supremacy - that is why White European-Americans want Black Afrikans & Hispanics to fight each other over Immigration to maintain control by White European-Americans
Some White European-Americans still believe that they are supreme over all other people

FreeMan, one last time. Across this nation, Universities reject applications because the applicant is Asian, or Indian, or any number of non-preferred races. Almost all of the non-preferred races fall into the category of "people of color". That is Affirmative Action.

Dom - The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the US' oldest Civil Rights Organization that is known for representing the interests of Black Afrikans in the US - The NAACP was founded to stop racial hate crimes against Black Afrikans -
Dom what is your ethnicity? I am Black Afrikan