vip@philabs.UUCP (V. I. P.) (06/06/85)
>>/* vip@philabs.UUCP (V. I. P.) / 11:22 am Jun 3, 1985 */ > >>Simply, figure out the dollar amount owed the >>survivors/decendants of forced labor (slavery), and make >>payment. Let's call it compensation for wages deferred. > >That sounds great, as long as you extract payment from those who did the >forcing, or their estates, or from those to whom their wealth was transferred. >Don't forget about discounting for future value! > Okay, Mike. First of all remember that I qualified this posting by stating that it was merely rhetorical. But as to who has benefited from the free black labor enjoyed for generations in this country, I must say that probably just about everyone has (perhaps, indirectly even blacks) in that it helped to make this the richest country in the world. I'd be interested in finding out exactly how they came up with the $25,000 figure for compensation to Japanese interned during WWII. >>. . . no more bitching and moaning from >>privileged classes about reverse discrimination (which I >>don't really believe can exist). > >Are you arguing that the phrase "reverse discrimination" is inappropriate >for describing that which it is used to describe in common usage >(or, for that matter, for describing anything), or are you saying that >it is not possible for an employer to hire a less qualified member of a >minority group instead of a more qualified member of a majority group >(whatever that is) because he/she is a member of a minority group? > I am arguing that the phrase "reverse discrimination" is inappropriate in that it is a colloquialism and catch-phrase that is used to incite reaction. It is obviously possible for an employer to hire a less qualified minority than someone not belonging to a minority group. I just don't know that the term "reverse discrimination" is anything more than political language jerrymandering, sort of like "right to life", what it says (literally) is not necessarily what it means (politically). >> Brian Day > > Mike Sykora
mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) (06/06/85)
>/* vip@philabs.UUCP (V. I. P.) / 5:43 pm Jun 5, 1985 */ > . . . But as to who has benefited from >the free black labor enjoyed for generations in this country, I must >say that probably just about everyone has (perhaps, indirectly even blacks) >in that it helped to make this the richest country in the world. How much each of us benefitted is, of course, impossible to measure. Mike Sykora