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Talk:Affirmative Action President (view source)
Revision as of 16:45, August 29, 2008
, 16:45, August 29, 2008→Majority / Minority: new section
::Is there no interest in this? Well I shall give it another day and then take another look at how best to proceed. --[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 21:00, 3 July 2008 (EDT)
::Is there no interest in this? Well I shall give it another day and then take another look at how best to proceed. --[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 21:00, 3 July 2008 (EDT)
:::Since no one argues, I am going to delete the sources as they do not support the contention being made.--[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 10:50, 4 July 2008 (EDT)
:::Since no one argues, I am going to delete the sources as they do not support the contention being made.--[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 10:50, 4 July 2008 (EDT)
== Majority / Minority ==
I object to the following sentence:
:"There is nothing wrong with a Vice President representing a minority, as long as the President represents the majority"
After I removed it, it was swiftly reinstated by editor AdamE with a note that "[t]he President represents the majority of Americans by definition (he gets the majority of votes)". While this is certainly true in terms of majority ''political'' support, the article is concerned with a President being chosen on grounds of ''racial'' minority.
The point of the article is that a President should not be chosen on grounds of race alone - but then neither they should they be excluded on grounds of race alone. If this sentence is included within the article, it suggests that the President must represent the ethnic majority - I.E. the President must be white - and I think that that is an argument best avoided, and likely to debase this article and its message.
Please note that I am not accusing any editor of being racist as I assume good faith, but I believe that if this sentence is left in place, it puts quite a racist message in the article. [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 12:45, 29 August 2008 (EDT)