In ba.transportation Stan de SD wrote:

"Disgruntled Customer" wrote in message
...

....

Diablo Range so that people have an alternative.

You're assuming minorities are universally less qualified; that is, you're
saying they're inferior.

Funny, but I favor hiring people based on their individual qualifications,
not to meet some "diversity" quota. The fact that Lefty Liberals feel
compelled to force racial quotas is an admission that they themselves don't
believe that those people can make it on merit.

I don't know anybody who favors quotas...do you? (Or is that an
admission that there are no "Lefty Liberals"?)
Methods like Affirmative Action are used, not because their
advocates feel minorities can't "make it on merit," but because
hiring is not based on merit in the real world.
It's clear that, in the real world, minorities do not hold
jobs in many areas in proportion to their population. If you
believe that hiring does in fact take place on merit, does that
mean that minorities are in fact of lower merit? (And, if so, is
that based on inherent ability, education and experience, ...? And
what, if anything, do you believe should be done about it?)
(Actually I don't know why I bother to ask that last question.
Your answer is that if government will quit trying to solve
problems, the problems will solve themselves.)