Amen.

Hear, hear!

A Big Blue Corporation was deeply affected with AA hires in the late 70s and 80s.
Severe "problems" were bumped up to other locations, to become other peoples' problems. Firing one required the patience of Job, and documentation up the wazoo to be prepared for the inevitable lawsuit.
How about we hire the best person for the position?

This was a great read, Affirmative Action must be abolished.

Affirmative Action as a concept spits in the face of Martin Luther King's dream for America.

He advocated that people be valued for the content of their character and not their skin color. We'll never have a color-blind society if people are being given lopsided preferential treatment that they have neither earned nor merit based on their actual achievements, demonstrated character, and personal responsibility.

Ironically, it hurts minority achievers the most, in that the minority individuals who actually DO have the skills and character to hold a position suffer from the prejudicial stigma that they probably only got their position by having the bar lowered for them.

The failed dean in this article acted just like a failed former boss and our failed president - all adult spoiled brats.

They had always got their own way for various reasons and had never had to (or chosen to) learn how to make wise decisions for the good of those they lead. It's always and forever about THEM.

Excellent article.
The academic world entered the swamp of affirmative action back in the 1970s, with gusto.
At my university, a distinguished, famous professor was forced into retirement the first summer (1970) a cadre of black students showed up, recruited for graduate school, who chose not to do the academic work in a rigorous master's
s level course. And the professor was forced out, after he refused to change the grades for those students.. (the adge dicrimination in employment act of 1967 during the earlly years, did not protect professors. They were specifically excluded from coverage.)
That set the low standards for the rest of the faculty.

When a person first gets a job as a manager of people, they think every word they speak is followed to the letter by those below them.
A good leader understands that those under them will undermine everything unless the leader either gets them on board or threatens them with the loss of their job. The manager must have the ability to cost them their job which is most of the time not the case. In the case of the AA dean, she didn't have half the power she thought she did as she was dealing with tenured professors. Obama had absolutely no experience leading and managing people.
He therefore thought he was King and as King every whim of his would be carried out with a flip of his hand. While the dimocrats and MSM followed him like lemmings, the Republicans and alternate press did not. Everything he tried to do turned to SH*T. There was not one chance in a million that Obama could lead the USA in an adult manner. He came from a dope smoking liberal youth=hood, communist parents, communist grandparents and communist friends and teachers. The only thing he knew was communist thought and how bad the USA is to the world.

Those of us who attended top law schools with obvious Affirmative Action admissions (and Affirmative Action "professors") can vouch for this.

Absolutely correct. Can’t be rid of this incompetent personification of Affirmative Action fast enough. Zero was dropped to his knees by reality, live, in front of 67 million people and I predict his humiliation on election day will be total. If he thinks he’ll rake in the bucks, ala Clinton post presidency, he’s much mistaken (perhaps he should research peanut farming). He and Sweetie have both lost their law licenses so employment options are limited. More reality to come. An avalanche of voter disapproval will confirm what Zero already knows: he’s not the smartest person in the room, he’s the shallowest.

My personal experience with affirmative action was in a Dental Hygiene program where our "affirmative action" pick was a Hispanic male who came into the program with poor grades, while the other picks had a 3.8 average grade point.. He struggled with the program and could never keep up with the microbiology, chemistry and the studies. Everyone had to help him; he finally received his credentials after four separate attempts taking the national exams. He actually worked less than a year after all that work, because he lost his license when he was caught with his hand up a patient's skirt (who happened to be an attorney) while he had her on nitrous oxide.

Tells the whole story. Makes perfect sense. Send it to everyone who gives a damn about our nation's future. Pure, simple gospel truth.

Last Wednesday's debate showed what inevitably happened when affirmative actions "smarts" are matched against real smarts. Obama, with the help of the press, has spend hundreds of millions of dollars painting Romney as a stupid bumbler. In fact, Romney is one of only 15 people to successfully complete the joint law and MBA program at Harvard. And, he came out at the top of both classes, and received the Business School's prestigious Baker Scholar award. The man is actually brilliant. Obama was scared to confront him.

Yo..yo...Neil, UVA is still making affirmative action hires?? You now have Teresa Sullivan!! She co-authored a book with Liz Warren (Lieawatha)from Harvard, who falsely claimed she was a Cherokee!!! The book has been attacked for being based on unverifiable data!!! Why has UVA been silent on this?? The only thing Sullivan hasn't done is claim to be a Native American. Her academic credentials should be as suspect as Lieawatha's.

Best posting I've ever read

Once you get to Professor Emeritus status, you can call a spad.... uh-oh, better not use that cliche!

Extremely well said.