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Response rates from 2.7k Des Moines voters.

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Yes
42%
No
39%
Yes
35%
No
1%
Yes, and drastically increase the current amount of programs
7%
No, and minority groups should not receive any favorable treatment

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 @4SNSSB2from Armed Forces Europe, Middle East, & Canada  answered…4yrs4Y

I believe that America needs to start recognizing that there are no minorities anymore. We are all Americans. End of story. If you are in America it is because you are or want to be an American. We are all people and we are all Americans. The color of one's skin, one's gender, one's sexual preference, or one's religion should not make us different enough to cause such a segregated society. We don't have separate facilities, but we are certainly segregated to this day, and it's pathetic.

 @4TRB4RWfrom New York  answered…4yrs4Y

No, the Democrats purposely designed affirmative action to produce failure and increase racism. If blacks had followed Malcolm X instead of MLK they would not have remained in the permanent underclass the Democrats created for them

 @52KP5BXfrom Virginia  answered…4yrs4Y

No, "the first step to stopping racism is to stop talking about it"~Morgan Freeman

 @4SNNPBZfrom Kansas  answered…4yrs4Y

Regardless, we should create more social programs to address poverty, and also increase the acceptance of different races, forget the "minority" everyone needs to be treated equal, it's not "black lives matter" it's not "minority lives matter" It's every god damn life matters.

 @4RL4HM3from Ohio  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but switch affirmative action programs to be geared towards socioeconomic status rather than race.

 @4S6DMZWfrom Wisconsin  answered…4yrs4Y

 @5NBYT86from Ohio  answered…4yrs4Y

Not when it interferes with the best qualified person through testing, etc. Do we go into a black or Hispanic business and demand that they fire their black or Hispanic workers and replace them with whites.? Fair play?

 @56VSRHVfrom Indiana  answered…4yrs4Y

I think it would help society if we stop talking about minorities. Many are minorities with no "affirmative action" to help them. Families with disabled kids or elderly parents they have to care for often go without and no one steps up to help them (programs are a joke) everyone should be put on an equal playing ground. Apply for jobs, schooling etc., and everyone have equal chance. Don't give a healthy able bodied adult special preference because of race. It's not fair to others.

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