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Article: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIRES PROVE THEIR METTLE.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 23, 1997
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Byline: Clarence Page
WASHINGTON -- 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 like 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 ...