Today is Martin Luther King day. Yipee Skipee. I don't mean to sound callous, but I have never done anything special for Martin Luther King day. It's just another day to me. It's nice to have Adam home from work though. I just read an article about Bush working to change one of the policies that University of Michigan has as far as screening potential students. Apparently they use race as a factor as to whether you will get accepted there, giving blacks and hispanics preferrential treatment. The minoroity leaders call it affirmative action, but the opposers of the acceptance process of the university call it reverse discrimination. I would have to see exactly what their policies are, but I personally think that they shouldn't even ask for your race on a college application. You should get accepted into a school based on your scholastic aptitude. Makes sense to me. I read in the article that leaders like Jesse Jackson say that affirmative action is meant to make up for centuries of discrimination. So where does that leave the caucasion kids that work really hard and make good grades? They didn't enslave anyone to work on their farm. They just happened to be born white. Affirmative action should be there to prevent discrimination, not foster it in the name of payback or revenge. People tend to lose sight of the fact that we are all people, and have the same feelings and value no matter what our skin color. Oh well, little old me ranting about it in my diary isn't going to change the world.