[tivodan1116]

Quote by: Jimmy the Pro I do not favor affrimative action because it ignores the part of equal responsibility, however I believe it is up to the government to somehow find a way that everyone should have equal oppertunity.

How is that not already being done within the reasonable bounds of the government? Everyone in the country has the ability to sign their kid up for roughly the same crappy public education at age 5. Everyone has the right to the same federal financial aid programs which enable job training or college. Everyone has the right to join the military unless they are gay (how stupid). The government provides housing, food, and clothing to make people comfortable until they finish their education and hopefully break the cycle of poverty. What more opportunity do we need?

Sure you can tell me that everyone has "rights" and "Constitutional protection" but without quality education there is no income,

There is quality education all over. What has to happen is students taking advantage of it.

with no income there is no affordable living, without affordable living there is the streets, and on the streets I see no oppertunity.

In case you missed it, housing is provided for people that can't afford it. It's not the Taj Mahal, but should it be???

In courts when I see a poor african american family using a public defender with tons of cases and just putting this one at the back of his mind and trying to settle and not win then the prosecutor with his high dollar attorney looking to press charges and seek jail time, I don't see equal oppertunity.

First of all, it's black. Or brown, or whatever... I don't think when you wrote this you meant Dave Matthews or Charlize Theron, so "African American" is a misnomer.

Obviously you don't go to courts and "see" much of anything. Prosecutors are attorneys and they certainly are not "high dollar". In many counties (like mine) the PD's and DA's make the same pay scale.