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Article: What they don't tell you about affirmative action.
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- August 1, 1995
- Author:
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AFFIRMATIVE action is under attack Alike never before. Hiring goals, scholarship programs and set asides, once thought essential to bring minorities into America's mainstream, are being challenged from all directions. Several recent Supreme Court rulings have dealt setbacks to these preference programs and a Republican Congress has vowed to pass laws which stop government and businesses from correcting past discrimination by attracting, hiring, promoting and doing business with minorities.
Talk of the "angry White male" has grown to a fever pitch as White men say affirmative action takes what's meritoriously theirs and sympathetically gives it to unqualified Blacks. ...