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Article: Obama's careful take on affirmative action Candidate focuses on class in America ELECTIONS 2008
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Rachel L. Swarns The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
08-04-2008
Obama's careful take on affirmative action Candidate focuses on class in America ELECTIONS 2008
Byline: Rachel L. Swarns The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: NEWS
In 1990, as his fellow students rallied to protest the dearth of black professors at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama wrote a vigorous defense of affirmative action.
The campus was in an uproar over questions of race, and Obama, then the first black president of The Harvard Law Review, decided to take a stand.
Obama said he had "undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action" in his academic career, and he praised the intellectual ...