Obama's Election, Others In High Office Show No Need for Affirmative Action

When I was a young boy (62 years ago), I learned in kindergarten that one of the beautiful things about America is that anyone could become president if one worked hard enough. I have always believed that.

Now with the election of Barack Obama as president we have proof. So let the change begin.

We have living proof in a black president, a black Supreme Court justice and black congressmen there is no need for the crutch of affirmative action. It is obvious that any man or woman with enough determination can change their own destiny.

This, of course, assumes the child is backed by a family structure that makes schoolwork 'priority one' throughout elementary and high school. If, that is, his grades alone will make him eligible to go the top universities in America: Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Northwestern, University of Michigan, Stanford, or you name it.

However, at this point, Mother Nature steps in and, just as the weakest eaglet or lion cub may not survive, the strong-and-determined almost always survive but to different levels of accomplishment.

If the eagle mother and father do not provide, failure will be the result. This country indeed needs change, and it is obvious affirmative action programs are not the answer. Better parenting is.

JOHN F. KRZYSIAK

Haines City