You are right many do care. We may not all stand in lines of protest. Some of us take action and fight the good fight in whatever capacity we can.

The reason many feel like Affirmative action has grown old because it has been abuse. Don't get me wrong because I believe we will have to have safegaurds in place for the abuses that some would subject others to in their bias and ignorant opinions.

There are those who use and abuse the systems that are placed such as affirmative action for purposes to suit themselves and their own greed.

In the case of my mining operation only the large already rich contracting firms wanted to use my status as a woman for there own greed. The truth is the mine would produce the only material of that kind around in that area. Why should I apply to a program for special treatment when it was not needed? Or I should say should not have been needed. If a company wanted to spend at least an extra six dollars a ton to have materials trucked from over sixty miles away would not that in itself say they were discriminating when they would not purchase my materials? Besides adding that much of cost per ton for materials would have been ridiculous for anyone contracting a project that needed those materials.

That did not stop them from destroying my business and my husbands business so he could support me and I could continue in the mine. Hatred and greed run deep enough in this country that truthfully at this point no one is safe regardless of your sex, religion, or nationality.