Louisiana Men's Basketball Season Ticket Renewals Underway

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Originally Posted by ULvictory

When it is used to straight up pander, then yes.

As someone with Asian blood, I don't want to get chosen or picked to do something because of what I look like. I would rather my qualifications do the talking.

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I'm guessing you would also want it the other way, too. Not denied something because of your ethnicity.
I understand that the color of my skin has never gotten in the way of advancement.

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Originally Posted by Ragin4U

I'm guessing you would also want it the other way, too. Not denied something because of your ethnicity.
I understand that the color of my skin has never gotten in the way of advancement.

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If I am denied something because of my ethnicity, then the heck with them. That's not a place I would want to work at to begin with because even if I was chosen, there is a built-in prejudice to which I want no association.

But again, what will not work is directly accepting someone just because of what they look like. That's dangerous territory. I'll take someone who is qualified regardless what he/she might look like. Just get the job done.

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Originally Posted by Ragin4U

So diversity is a bad thing?

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Diversity became the word of choice after the Supreme Court knocked down Texas med school quota model. So we no longer have quotas, we now have an asset called diversity that the Supreme Court approved.

I’m not a diversity guy, I’m a best person guy. Sometimes it’s even a white guy who’s under thirty.

There’s very little diversity in the NFL, NBA, NHL. I don’t know why African Americans are so good at basketball. Seems nobody else works as hard to master the game. Surely can’t have anything to do with genetics.

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Originally Posted by Duggie35

Dude,
No one signing a petition today has ever been a slave! As a matter of fact, ANYONE (white, black, red, green, purple or blue) living in this country has it better than 90% of the worlds population, regardless of race!

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So it just gets wiped away? A history of racial oppression is just gone. The Civil War ended 150 years ago. Black people legally gained the right to vote with the 15th Amendment and still had/have major issues exercising that basic right. Schools/bathrooms/water fountains were still segregated into the late 60s and early 70s. The freaking 1970's!!

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Originally Posted by ULvictory

If I am denied something because of my ethnicity, then the heck with them. That's not a place I would want to work at to begin with because even if I was chosen, there is a built-in prejudice to which I want no association.

But again, what will not work is directly accepting someone just because of what they look like. That's dangerous territory. I'll take someone who is qualified regardless what he/she might look like. Just get the job done.

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Take your first sentence and apply it the nation.

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Originally Posted by ULvictory

Growing up as a kid, I had the distinct privilege of traveling to places in South America and Asia with my parents.

And I understand that our country doesn't always have the greatest past. But for someone to say how "bad" it is in this country compared to other places around the world, I challenge them to spend a week in some of the poorer countries and see what it's really like to have it bad. Go to Venezuela right now and see how "great" socialism has made their country.

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I think we should aspire to be better than Venezuela.

We live one of in the richest countries in the world but we lag far behind most other first world countries when it comes to things like poverty, inequality, healthcare, education, etc. When countries with less resources than we have are able to help their citizens flourish better than we can, it is a massive failure. There’s no other way to say it. We need to do better.

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Originally Posted by ULvictory

If I am denied something because of my ethnicity, then the heck with them. That's not a place I would want to work at to begin with because even if I was chosen, there is a built-in prejudice to which I want no association.

But again, what will not work is directly accepting someone just because of what they look like. That's dangerous territory. I'll take someone who is qualified regardless what he/she might look like. Just get the job done.

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I completely agree. The goal is to live in a world where we treat skin color like hair color. I don’t think policies like these help us reach that goal.

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Originally Posted by CajunRebel

I think we should aspire to be better than Venezuela.

We live one of in the richest countries in the world but we lag far behind most other first world countries when it comes to things like poverty, inequality, healthcare, education, etc. When countries with less resources than we have are able to help their citizens flourish better than we can, it is a massive failure. There’s no other way to say it. We need to do better.

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We come up short in a lot of these issues. What amazes me, though, is the fact that we point to all of our shortfalls but not to ourselves. And I say this from the top on down. We lack self-accountability in this country.

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Originally Posted by Ragin4U

I understand that the color of my skin has never gotten in the way of advancement.

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Your lackluster advancement probably has zero to do with the color of your skin.

But in 2020 the color of some people’s skin has costed them jobs regardless what the color is. I personally witnessed white men not getting hired until my company hired the right diversity. They were hired immediately after the diversity was met. I’m sure some great blacks were passed over because of the Jerry Baldwin stigma. The company had enough black people to meet the diversity goals, no need to take a Baldwin risk.

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Originally Posted by CajunRebel

I think we should aspire to be better than Venezuela.

We live one of in the richest countries in the world but we lag far behind most other first world countries when it comes to things like poverty, inequality, healthcare, education, etc. When countries with less resources than we have are able to help their citizens flourish better than we can, it is a massive failure. There’s no other way to say it. We need to do better.

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Amazingly our lower classes seem ignorant to those wonderful opportunities in those great countries. I’m all in for supplements to get them started in those many wonderful other countries.

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Originally Posted by ULvictory

Growing up as a kid, I had the distinct privilege of traveling to places in South America and Asia with my parents.

And I understand that our country doesn't always have the greatest past. But for someone to say how "bad" it is in this country compared to other places around the world, I challenge them to spend a week in some of the poorer countries and see what it's really like to have it bad. Go to Venezuela right now and see how "great" socialism has made their country.

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Originally Posted by ULvictory

We come up short in a lot of these issues. What amazes me, though, is the fact that we point to all of our shortfalls but not to ourselves. And I say this from the top on down. We lack self-accountability in this country.

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These CEO, and politicians all claim accountability yet never resign. The Japanese once knew about accountability. They’re the stuff of legends.