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Article: Is racial diversity in America the cure or the problem?
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- New York Amsterdam News
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- July 9, 2003
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Maddox, Alton H., Jr.
New York Amsterdam News
07-09-2003
The U.S. Supreme Court has now embraced Justice Lewis Powell's decisive
opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that "student
body diversity is a compelling state interest that can justify the use of
race in university admissions." It is being hailed as a legal milestone in
higher education even though racial diversity in North America is as old as
the English colonies.
In fact, racial diversity, in a white supremacist society, is the problem
and not the cure. To ensure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
racial diversity was a compelling, colonial interest 400 years ago. It is
still being employed to achieve an ...