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affirmative action

Do We Still Need Race-based Affirmative Action?

June 25, 2013 by Lita Kurth 1 Comment

Do we, as some claim, live in a post-racial society that no longer requires any special measures to aid equality of opportunity? After all, we have our first black president. What further proof of racial opportunity could anyone want? Well, a lot. Our racial history casts a long shadow particularly in black-white relations, (though other […]

Filed Under: Race and Class Tagged With: affirmative action, race and class, racism

Responding to Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision

June 24, 2013 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

My first response to the Supreme Court’s decision in the University of Texas case was to breathe a sigh of relief.  I had been expecting affirmative action to be ruled illegal.  Instead the Court, in effect, said that the University had to prove that non-racial methods were ineffective in creating greater diversity. We should, however, […]

Filed Under: Race and Class Tagged With: affirmative action, blaming the victim, race and class, racism, unemployment

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