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Article: Reverse discrimination still step back.(Editorial)
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- The Boston Herald
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- March 6, 2000
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In recent years, affirmative action has come under increasing political and judicial pressure. California's Proposition 209, which prohibits the use of racial preferences by the state government, and the Hopwood decision, which prohibits the University of Texas law school from using racial preferences in admissions, are the best-known examples.
Affirmative action began as a means of ensuring equality of opportunity, which has been an implicit imperative ever since the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal. It took a bloody civil war, however, to resolve the tension between the practice of slavery and Jefferson's assertion. We wrote ...