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Over time I�ve found myself in several meaningless arguments with people about Affirmative Action when I�ve talked to people about the situation we�ve found ourselves in. Some people begin defending the purpose of Affirmative Action because they assume I�m set against it. I tell them to forget that it has anything to do with Affirmative Action. I say it�s far more complex than just a problem with Affirmative Action. My story is about how it got out of hand and how the government went about trying to suppress the problems which had evolved from it. It�s time for us to face it and figure out where we went wrong with it because we�ve all fallen victim of it.

I for one am not against the true goal of Affirmative Action; I�m just against they way in which it was carried out. Though I understand where some people get the impression I�m out to do away with Affirmative Action many don�t understand that Affirmative Action isn�t the only thing I�m up against. Often they begin defending it as if my book is all about trying to abolish it. But the reality is many of the experiences I�ve written about in my book are the result of the efforts to protect Affirmative Action. Obstruction of justice and other crimes have been committed in the efforts to cover up the conspiracy. It takes a complex explanation to clarify the snow balling effect which has caused all of us to sacrifice intellectual well being for such wrong doings.

I�ve tried to be open minded about Affirmative Action all along because I�ve witnessed first hand the oppression minorities have had to go threw. There has been a few times in my life I�ve been called a nigger-lover just because I drove around in vehicles with friends who happened to be black.

I used to alternate driving to work with a soft spoken black guy named Bradley. At times on the job site I�d hear the comments from a few of the workers at times, but I never let it bother me because I knew Brad was a hell of a nice guy and one of the best painters I�ve ever worked with. If they couldn�t see that in him, I figured it was a problem they had with themselves. In fact; I credit Brad for showing me how to strain paint without getting paint on my hands and its one thing I never saw anyone else do for over twenty years later, so I think it�s safe to say he had his shit together and it�s one thing I can�t say about most painters I�ve had to work with.

One day while driving home from work Bradley talked about the need for having more minorities in the positions where they do the hiring, so more minorities would have a better chance at getting into better job positions. But now days I�d have to say to Brad that his wish has gone a little too far in the last decade or two because even he himself has fallen victim to it.

Since the construction trades are without my inventions, Bradley is still working out of an obsolete truck and working harder than he should. If he�s purchased another house since then, his house payments and property taxes are most likely higher than they should be too.

It has always been said that there's always two sides of a story and I can say I�ve done my part at studying the other side of this one. I took on the responsibility of researching the significance of Affirmative Action and even checked out this book written by JoAnn Bren Guernsey titled, �Affirmative Action a Problem or a Remedy.� It was written with the goal of being a neutral pre-sentation about how the laws evolved. In her book first presented the history of Affirmative Action and then commented on surveys and backed them with statistics as well.

The history goes back through many decades and it starts out at the time after John F. Kennedy was elected into the presidency in 1961. He got things rolling and his efforts were the most important. He signed the Executive Order 10925, referred to as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which made it illegal to discriminate. Then in 1964 he passed the Civil Rights Act as an effort to make sure minorities didn�t get segregated into separate substandard equipped classrooms. Kennedy�s actions were working and the actions were showing results.

The results were positive, but as we all know, patience is not always present when there are people who want results yester-day. As a result, Kennedy�s predecessor Lyndon B. Johnson came up with some more laws that actually got Affirmative Action off the ground. Then it got out of hand when Nixon came along and sign in the first true Affirmative Action programs into law. Nixon�s implementation was named the Philadelphia Plan. It even got more out of hand when old man Bush received heat over the Clarance Thomas problem and he was pressured into signing Civil Rights Act of 1990-91 by the Democrats.

In 1995, Newsweek did a poll suggesting that whites oppose racial preferences in employment or collage admissions by a margin of 74 percent to 14 percent; minorities questioned sup-ported these policies by 50 to 46 percent margin.

In JoAnn Bren Guernsey�s book, she stated that studies have shown that some minorities think Affirmative Action gives them a sense of false diversity and they end up being stigmatized by it. Many opponents of Affirmative Action within the minority groups are concerned that preferential treatments can promote self-doubt and undermine self-respect. Sometimes this leads them to be seen by others as well as by themselves as inferior.

From what I gathered, certain people say positive things about Affirmative Action because their opinion is in favor of it. But I feel Guernsey was up against an impossible task to make her book appear natural because the second half of the book gets into the educational institution aspect of it and there it conveys the serious down falls of it. One thing that stuck out to me was that she said author, D�Souza claimed that only 22 percent of Hispanics and 18 percent of the blacks who were admitted to Berkeley through Affirmative Action programs in 1982 had actually graduated by 1987. For those blacks and Hispanics who were not admitted through preferential programs, however, their graduation rate was 55 percent and 42 percent respectively. Tell me, what do you get from that? 90% of the teenagers surveyed said that race should not be a factor in employment opportunities and collage admissions.

I think anyone who reads �Affirmative Action a Problem or a Remedy,� would come to the same conclusion as I did; that things really got out of hand when Johnson, Nixon, and Bush came along and that they should have just let the efforts of J.F.K. run its course. We all know some things just take time and I feel the oppression minorities have experienced is something that is im-possible to change overnight. I feel they should have left John F. Kennedy�s efforts alone because his plan had already started to turn things around and his actions would�ve been sufficient.

From my own investigation into the matter, most of the minor-ities I�ve talked to say they think the best qualified person for the job should always get the job. The way I look at the whole ordeal is that Affirmative Action is just a bunch of stupid people too afraid to take the same test as everyone else.

Here we fuss over killing a retarded, murder, rapist, on death row in Texas. Some people might even say we should to kill off a whole lot more of them to make-up for the deaths of the smart guys. In fact I had a lady tell me, �So the stupid drug addicts kill themselves off so that can make up for it.� But I feel that wouldn't necessarily be the solution because we would still be lowering the ceiling of intellectual thought process in our society.

I�ll have to credit my sister who works as an aid to a special education department in a public school system for being this to my attention. She says: the stupid people take drugs while they�re pregnant and it messes up their kids. The kids born to stupid drug addicts has learning disabilities and many of those end up on drugs just to be able to do school work.

Some people say they like Bill Clinton, but I'd have to say I wonder what they actually like about him? I happen to think of him as another sicko like Hitler. Both only cared about them selves at the expense of others. I don�t understand how Hiltler could even get solders within his army to back him. Some say it was because he was a good speaker, but I feel it must have been the threat of do or die. But still I just don�t understand how such a thing could happen. I guess it�s because people are so gullible and it�s the very reason there are people actually like the Clintons. In my book Clinton is a mass murder of the smart people and there are too many who are too dumb to realize it. Hitler had one thing over Clinton; at least he�d pick out and save the one who were scientist and engineers.

With the way things are going -- with test scores being down and kids killing each other, I'd be wondering about what we are doing to ourselves, if I were you. Heck -- don't you realize that if we keep killing off the smart guys the human race will get dumber by the day? Sure, killing off the smart guys might make you one up on the next guy, but you'll have to wonder if your daughter will bring home a moron.

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