This law is a plague upon society here in the United States, and to see a twin version of it being proposed in the United Kingdom is extremely disheartening.

I am a white, educated woman in my early twenties. I have applied for countless positions throughout my area lately and have not been accepted.

1) I have too much education - and they don't want to pay me accordingly.
2) I am white, and they have the racial quota to fill.

One example of this is how I went to apply as a librarian at my local library. This is a very good-paying job and I had all the qualifications for it(high school diploma, Associate's degree, two Bachelor's degrees). I applied, but so did a high-school dropout black woman. Guess who got the job?

This black woman had few of the skills I have and yet she was picked because it is a government position and being a minority, she was preferred. I could, of course, have stated my ethnicity as Hispanic, which it is, but I thought this a cheap shot.

I want to be hired for my merits, not my ethnicity. I would be absolutely ashamed to be hired for my race and not for my skills.

(I probably have just ruffled a few feathers by labeling her "black." Give me a break, this political correctness has gone far enough).

This doesn't only apply to careers, but to education as well. I have spoken with many professors about how I, who studied so much for a particular course, have a B and some minorities consistently failed their exams received a B grade as well. The answer was that they are forced by the law to pass these persons. What do you think that does to the state of society? People will be promoted from one grade to another, without having learned the necessary skills involved in each grade level. Once they hit college, the same applies (as they are required by law to be accepted into college, regardless of their skills) and they end up with Masters and Doctorates, but without the skills associated with such high degrees. This can and will harm people, and this devastating social law must come to an end.

Don't people realize that reverse-discrimination is *still* discrimination?