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Article: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SHOULDN'T END BEFORE MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 24, 1997
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As the battle over affirmative action heats up, I am bracing myself for the time when my side - the side that supports it - loses.
The winners will be my rivals such as Ward Connerly, the black businessman who led the anti-affirmative action proposition that California voters passed in November. Connerly recently formed an organization to spread the movement to other states.
Martin Luther King III organized a group to counter Connerly's. But though King's organization may have some successes, ultimately the pro-affirmative action side will lose.
Affirmative action was never supposed to be permanent. The question has never been whether, but when ...