"Positive Discrimination"???

Is that possible?

Reuters: French report rejects plan to aid minorities---

PARIS (Reuters) - A report drawn up for the French government has rejected calls for "positive discrimination" to help minorities find jobs, dealing a blow to Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy has challenged President Jacques Chirac by calling for affirmative action to help tackle high unemployment among minorities, seen as one of the causes of three weeks of rioting in poor suburbs that abated last week.

But the report -- prepared by the High Council on integration, a panel of academics and cultural figures -- backed Chirac's view that positive discrimination or setting quotas for hiring minorities has no place in a state built on the belief that everyone should have equal opportunities.

"The worst result of the current crisis ... would be to succumb to the temptation to do away with the Republican promise of equal rights and opportunity in place of positive discrimination and ethnic and communal policies," said the government-commissioned report, released on Thursday. (emphasis added)

Absolutely right! Which, really, is surprising coming from the French.

By making the playing field uneven, though supposedly "evening it," by giving some a head start and a higher score, does not lead to equality in any way.

If one wants to get somewhere in life, he must do it through determination, hard work, and faith, not government handing it to him.