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Article: Affirmative action foes point to Obama ; Say candidate is proof effort no longer needed
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2008
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WASHINGTON - Leading opponents of affirmative action are
increasingly seizing on Illinois Senator Barack Obama's historic run
for the presidency as proof that race-based remedies for past
discrimination are no longer necessary.
Influential Republicans and a growing number of policy
specialists at conservative organizations, including the Goldwater
Institute, Project 21, and the Manhattan Institute, are citing the
fact that large numbers of white voters are supporting Obama, who
leads in the race for Democratic delegates, as evidence that
affirmative action has run its course.
Ward Connerly, a black conservative who is leading a national
effort to ban racial preferences, vowed to use Obama's ...