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[tonymorg]

I've deleted this post for two reasons:

1. I've cooled off considerably since writing the initial post.

2. I don't want my friend stumbling across the post and thinking that it was a bigger deal than it actually was.

If you still wanna chime in, feel free.

:-)

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[abearius]

Back when I wanted to see and save the world, I used to write stuff. Funny stuff, I thought, but insightful. If you read the Book of Numbers (which is a real snore except for this part) you find out that Moses married a black girl. Yep. "And Moses took unto himself a Cushite wife." Or something appropriately Biblical like that. Naturally, the spiritual leader of Israel had no good business marrying a schvatze, so Aaron and Miriam led a revolt among the children of Israel. Jehovah got pissed off at Aaron and Miriam, probably because they should have known better than to be a bunch of racist boobs, "and he smote them with whiteness." I find this amusing because "whiteness" (leprosy) becomes the stain of clannish racism, the stigma that you bear for refusing to embrace the universality of human dignity. So Miriam and Aaron had to live outside the camp of Israel for seven days to be cured of their whiteness. Later in, I think, Jeremiah, a "day" is compared to a "generation."

So, Affirmative Action can be seen as God's way of dealing with racial prejudice--losing your privilege for seven generations in order to restore Righteousness to the People.

Granted, this argument is not the best one, but I like the exemplum taken from the inviolable pages of the Holy Writ. Doing that lind of trips up your average whiner. :-)