In article om,
"Mr. Grumpypants" grumpypants@webtv wrote:

"willshak" wrote in message
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Speaking of affirmative action.
I haven't eaten in at MacDonalds in the last couple of
decades, but I remember they used to have written on their
paper place mats,
"We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity
employer".
Isn't that a dichotomy?

--
Bill

No.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_Action

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order
11246 which required federal contractors to take
"affirmative action" to hire without regard to race,
religion and national origin.

But then the courts got involved and it has evolved into something more
statistical. The original affirmative action was largely that you had go
looking for minorities, etc. Now, it is you have to meet certain levels
(dare I say quotas?) or run into problems.

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