Principles of Compensation (John Speaking)
		Comment				MAIN PATH: Malik
		Ann	John			Malik

Wait a minute. Let's make a distinction here between deserving compensation of some sort and the FORM that the compensation should take. Ann may be right that most young blacks deserve some sort of compensation because they have been indirectly harmed by what was done to their parents and so on. But Fred might be right that job preference is not the proper form for that compensation to take.

What has the young black job applicant lost? What would he or she have if fair play had been the rule? I think the right answer is "a better education." He lacks the preparation that the white applicant has. So maybe the proper form of compensation is education and training? The hiring itself could and should be color blind.

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