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That may be true in today's job market, but it was not true in the 1980's. I worked for a SoCal city. BY LAW that city was required to employ minorities in direct proportion the the percentage of minorities living in a certain radius around our city. BY LAW we had to prepare massive state and federal reports every quarter listing our employees by race, comparing those percentages to the percentage of minorities by race, documenting any changes from last quarter, and justifying any dip in the percentage of those employed to the baseline of minorities in the area.
Hon, if that isn't a mandated quota system, I don't know what is.
The fact is, quotas are the antithesis of what Affirmative action stands for. That's then and now. Nothing has changed in that regard. It's simply a shame that the misinformation regarding AA has persisted for so long.