Article: 'Angry White Guys' lobby for affirmative action.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

HAYWARD, Calif. _ Paul Rockwell, a children's librarian known to clutch a teddy bear during story hour, is angry, man.

The colorblind society he envisioned emerging from the turmoil of the '60s has not come to pass. He thinks the values he fought for as a young man are under siege. And he knows there are others out there like him, because he has found them.

So, Rockwell and almost 350 others of his kind have banded together, becoming the latest group to weigh in on the affirmative action issue in California.

The Angry White Guys for Affirmative Action are attempting to reach their ``white brothers'' on the other side of the question, says Rockwell. ...

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