Copying and pasting all the stuff some folks find on the internet doesn’t support specious logic applied to personal situations. All I’m saying is that based on considerable experience across a variety of employment and educational situations, no matter how badly affirmative action policies were written and implemented, I have never encountered anyone hired or placed who was hired or placed who could not do the work as well or better than someone who was not hired or placed. It’s really not in the best interest of any employer, even the government, or any educational institution to do that. I have never known any supervisor or teacher who wanted to work harder than they had to by hiring or placing someone who could do it.
Once in Texas I worked with a man of Mexican origin who treated the people who worked for him, some of them of also of Mexican origin badly. His white male supervisor said he could not fire him because of affirmative action. I didn’t buy that and documented the awful behavior with the help of his employees, took it to the next level and got the guy fired. Easy, peasy. It was a state agency.
