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Originally Posted by Pavan
You pick the best person for the job whether they are black, white, asian, hispanic, female, or male; NOT so you 'look good' when they publish your team picture in the school paper, but because they can get the job done right, on time, with a passion.
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It is often difficult to discern whether an affirmative action program is intended to make a group look good, or whether it's intended to address issues with causative links to race, ethnicity, culture or other such things. Indeed, it's probably a bit of both.
There is a limited place for picking someone who isn't necessarily the best for the job, because there's a reasonable probability that their experience will lead to improvement in the underprivileged group that they represent. But I agree, picking minorities simply to embellish photo-ops is unacceptable.