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Article: Quota quest: of Obama's vulnerability on racial preferences.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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THE election of Barack Obama threatens to become the worst thing that ever happened to race-based affirmative action. So says liberal columnist Bonnie Erbe. "What could do more damage to the argument that African Americans deserve racial preferences than a majority of Americans voting to put an African American in the White House?" she asked in July. Her answer: "Little, from where I sit."
The case for racial preferences almost certainly would weaken during an Obama presidency. Sanctimonious liberals everywhere would face a squirm-inducing question: "If racism in America is so bad, then how come ...?" The smart ones will observe that most whites actually cast ...