Klarinet Archive - Posting 000305.txt from 1999/02

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:47:58 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: DHmorgan@-----.com>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras

> ... If centuries of
>indiscriminately promoting whiteness can only be addressed by
indiscriminately
>promoting blackness, I think we need to take that solution seriously.

Two wrongs never make a right no matter what. In addition, as a female
engineer, I would not value my own abilities if I had gotten where I am
through preferential treatment resulting from trying to correct past wrongs.
I would much rather be able to hold my head high and say "I earned it."
Giving people preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex or whatever
to correct past wrongs is demeaning to the people that you are trying to
help. I have seen qualified women who were afraid to try for a better
position because they did not believe they had the ability as they had
gotten their current position through "affirmative action."

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe from Klarinet, e-mail: klarinet-unsubscribe@-----.org
Subscribe to the Digest: klarinet-digest-subscribe@-----.org
Additional commands: klarinet-help@-----.org
Other problems: klarinet-owner@-----.org